A surge in student hunger — brought on by the suspension of a federal food assistance program beginning Saturday — will ...

Australians are having fewer children than ever. At 1.5 babies per woman, the fertility rate is at a record low. Many attribute this to the cost of having and raising children.

The New York State Education Department is pushing new math guidelines, including a recommendation that teachers stop giving timed quizzes — because it stresses students out. The new guidelines also ...

If you’ve spent any time planning for retirement, you probably know the basics of Social Security: most people can start claiming benefits at age 62, reach “full retirement age” (FRA) between 66 and ...

A shocking video from a government school in Bihar has sparked debate about the quality of education in rural areas. Government teachers, who often clear several competitive exams before landing the ...

SPOKANE, Wash. - Numerica employees dropped off 600 pounds of hygiene products Thursday to Spokane non-profit Project Beauty Share to support the charity's first Hope 4 Kids Hygiene Drive. 4 News Now ...

U.S. employers and colleges are contending with more young people who are behind academically. Some are trying to make up where schools have failed. U.S. employers and colleges are contending with ...

Teachers are opening up about how more and more children are lacking in life skills – a decline they’ve noticed happening over the years. In a Reddit post titled “many kids cannot do basic things ...

Class is almost over—but instead of zoning out or packing up early, your students are hunched over their work, erasing, recalculating, and debating. The room buzzes with the rich math talk every ...

As schools reopen, many parents of children in basic schools are growing increasingly agitated by the total number of books prescribed for their kids to buy. According to some disappointed parents, ...

Across the country, parents are discovering that what their children bring home from school looks very little like what they once learned. It isn’t just math — reading lessons, writing expectations, ...

Lots of La Jolla’s recent high school grads will be starting college soon. I remember this era well and scrambling to educate my sons on some of the basic life skills that I was negligent in teaching ...