A by-the-numbers look at our education system shows that the traditional school calendar is failing to meet many students’ needs and more time better spend can help. Expanding learning time, or ELT, ...

Little kids are looking at a lot of dots these days. The theory behind this increasingly popular practice is that an effective way to teach counting might be by … not counting. That’s the ...

Parents have gotten the message that reading with their children can help instill lifelong literacy skills. A new study adds to the evidence that parents can be providing the same boost to numeracy ...

Most people know how to count, but the way we master this ability remains something of a puzzle. Now a formal model of the cognitive basis of counting has been developed. Most people know how to count ...

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Two months ago, I wrote an article about the the declining numbers of students identified as having “specific learning disabilities,” the largest of the 13 categories that are included in Individuals ...

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Damian Scarf at New Zealand's University of Otago reports in the current issue of the journal Science that experiments he conducted with colleagues show that pigeons can learn abstract rules about ...

Amanda Andrade-Rhoades/For The Washington Post via Getty Images Arlington County Public Schools will delay in-person learning for elementary students who were set to head back into schools next week ...