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Hanging out online helps teenagers develop "technological skills and literacy," a researcher on a new study said.

Brain scans are helping neurologists and other scientists develop new learning techniques.

Children and teenagers who play violent video games show increased physical aggression months afterward, according to new research that adds another layer of evidence to the continuing debate over the video-game habits of the youngest generation.

Traditional calculations of graduation rates ignore students who succeed in graduating but don't do it in four years.

Article about the intersection of arts and "core subjects."

About the importance of music education.

So just which book "about F.D.R.'s first 100 days" was President-elect Barack Obama talking about when he appeared on "60 Minutes" on Sunday?

Serving breakfast in the classroom rather than the cafeteria appears to remove the stigma attached to schoolchildren who qualify for low-income meals.

A study found that women still lag far behind men in top political and decision-making roles, though their access to education and health care is nearly equal.

The investigation by the attorney general appears to be focused on the adequacy of disclosure of policy terms and costs to students.

The average American college graduate's literacy in English declined significantly over the past decade, according to results of a nationwide test released in 2005.

First in an occasional series exploring variations in how popular courses are taught.

Complex diet regimens are starting to look like exotic mortgages and, just like a reliable savings account, good old calorie counting is coming back into fashion.

Parents and students in a growing number of schools can track fluctuations in a grade-point average from the nearest computer in real time, a ritual that can become as addictive as watching political polls or a stock-market index.

Over the last seven years, Jessie Little Doe Fermino, a member of the Mashpee tribe on Cape Cod, has been on a single-minded mission to revive the language of her ancestors, Wampanoag, the one that greeted the Pilgrims when they landed at Plymouth Rock and that gave the state of Massachusetts its name. But when she applied to the National Endowment of the Humanities for a grant to create a Wampanoag dictionary, she was turned down. The apparent reasons: the Wampanoag language has not been used in about 100 years, the known descendants of the original speakers number only 2,500 and Ms. Fermino is trying to make a spoken language out of a language that until recently existed only in documents, many of them from the 17th century.

Most kids under 2 are parked in front of the electronic babysitter every day. Author Lisa Guernsey explains how the tube impacts the smallest couch potatoes. A worthwhile article that explains some of the reasoning behind children's television. I can only assume that the book would be worth checking out too.

A few weeks ago, a study connected TV watching to ADHD. But the findings have been blown way out of proportion.

An explanation of the current nutrition facts label required by the FDA. Contains facts and statistics about the American diet and use of the labeling system.