If you spend any time on TikTok or Reddit, you’ve probably seen people talking about “FAFO parenting.” The acronym stands for “F**k Around and Find Out.” In FAFO parenting, parents allow their kids to ...

Every 4-year-old in California can now go to school for free in their local districts. The new grade is called transitional kindergarten — or TK — and it's part of the state’s effort to expand ...

Alarming reports that 154,000 New York City public-school students are "homeless" rely on a dubious definition used in no other context. Pat Benic/UPI/Shutterstock Alarming reports that 154,000 New ...

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Think back and picture it: It's 3:30 p.m. on a Tuesday in 2012. You're in the third grade and had an awesome day. You crushed your times tables worksheet in under two minutes. You're on your way home, ...

DC's Absolute Batman series is currently in the midst of its second major story arc, "Abomination," which pits this rookie Dark Knight against a reimagined version of Bane. As we saw in issue #9, ...

When classes resume this fall, college students will have access to yet another generative artificial intelligence tool marketed as a learning enhancement. But instead of generating immediate answers, ...

My feelings about TV and movies for kids are also the result of my own set of values about what I want my kids to experience, how I want them to learn to think about screens and storytelling and ...

It's a sweltering summer day in early July, and 13-year-old Ra'laya Myers is thrilled to be at school in North Philadelphia. "Everybody is like, literally, family here," she says. "It's a safe space." ...

Intensely loud music. It’s fun, at least for a little while, but it can have lifelong impacts. Children that are excited about music may make an early choice that they’ll regret in the 20s, 30s, and ...