The United States has the highest income gap in the developed world, and it's affecting how kids do in school, new research suggests. A new study reports that 10-year-olds' scores on standardized math ...

Should we simply throw up our hands and give up? Not according to Robert Putnam, the Malkin Professor of Public Policy at Harvard University. In his new book, Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis, ...

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A few years ago, a friend told me that she planned to enroll her kids in an accelerated after-school math program, once they got a little older. I asked if she worried that they would be bored in ...

Living in the rural mountain community of Salida, Colorado, Kate and Mike Madden were fortunate to have a lot of family support for child care when their two sons were infants. But as their boys ...

With a goal of combatting income inequality, New Jersey teens have raised more than $20,000 in the form of donations like books, toys, games, snacks and school supplies for underprivileged elementary ...