As many educators and researchers will attest, there’s no exact science to choosing vocabulary words—no inherent reason the word “detest” is more important to teach than “despise,” or why “compassion” ...

“We know that children use a lot of different information sources in their social environment, including their own knowledge, to learn new words. But the picture that emerges from the existing ...

Learning to read is a complex process. It requires children to master and integrate multiple skills, from mapping abstract ...

Sometimes life, with the aid of an unrelenting news cycle, can feel like an exercise in parsing out the particular kind of bad we are experiencing. Are we anxious or depressed, lonely or stressed? Tim ...

Parents and teachers often use flashcards and picture books to teach young children new words, but a new study suggests that understanding basic words may come from a flash of initial insight more ...

Traveling to another country when you don't know the language can be tricky. Here are some important phrases to look up ...

A combined brain-scanning and behavior study has explored dyslexia in 7 & 8-year-old children learning how to read. Dyslexic youngsters were shown to have different activation in the left hemisphere ...

Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft and philanthropist, inspires students worldwide through his words on learning, ambition, ...

Been catching up on my reading and every now and again, I discover something I’m surprised I didn’t know or words I’d never ...