For three months every year, most of our children get a vacation from school. They resist almost all adult efforts to refresh or reinforce their knowledge of any school subjects. But researchers ...

Are you spending the right amount of time with your kids? It’s a question that every parent has stressed about. There is so much work to be done and so many articles to read on Slate that it can seem ...

Question: I worry about my son who just completed seventh grade, because every time I saw him doing math work this past year, he was always using a calculator instead of paper and pencil. This was ...