Family

Reports of Child Abuse Go Up the Day After Report Cards Go Out

Let’s all take a moment and let this sink in: increases of child abuse can be correlated with the release…

Kids. Screens. What do we know about it all? A team of professor-parents are tackling that very question. Drs. Kristen…

While rereading Frankenstein recently, I couldn’t help but think Mary Shelley was offering us a critique of education. There is…

In the memoir Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance, the author describes a scene in first grade where six-year-old J.D. realizes…

A thoroughly intriguing talk about the ways babies learn language. Researcher Patricia Kuhl suggests that babies keep track of sounds…

You take a techy who becomes a dad and has a fascination with language. Then add videocameras all throughout the…

StoryCorp’s video memoir of Ronald Clark, who grew up living in the Washington Height’s public library, will make you yearn…

Love ain’t no missing piece to be found. I adored reading this book to my son when he was younger.…

I loved hearing Howard Gardner describe the limits of assessments, a kind warning to parents and the public to let…

I don’t know who made these films, but there are many of them online. Called “instructional” or “educational” films, you can…

Education is one of the fields that looks today a lot like it did a century ago. (Though, I will…

The author of Where the Wild Things Are talks about childhood–it’s real, raw, and truer than I’ve ever admitted. As…

Only later, at home, on the wooden bed we shared, did Mama weep. It did not matter that other aunts…