A list of shows, broken into subjects, that kids love for their entertainment and parents love for their educational value.

More than one‐third of the world's population uses a writing system that includes both uppercase and lowercase letter forms.

Parents have so much that they need to be responsible for these days. Where children often waited until kindergarten or first grade to learn their numbers, letters and colors, today’s children often ...

There are effective techniques for teaching vocabulary, but it's impossible to explicitly teach all the words kids need to become proficient readers. Vocabulary is key to reading comprehension, and ...

Toddlers may have a harder time picking up new words if there's background noise around them, like sounds from a TV or a cellphone conversation, a new study suggests. In the study, children ages 22 ...

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, ...

We’re going through a comic book phase at my house. Since lucking into the comics stash at the library, my 4-year-old refuses any other literary offering. Try as I might to rekindle her love of Rosie ...

Researchers at Laurentian University are reading French books to preschoolers this month to determine the best ways to teach them new words.

California has made a new grade, transitional kindergarten, available for all four-year-olds. LAist reporters spent a day in ...

From puzzling ABCs to a toy bank that won’t open, these kids’ toys left parents and the internet completely baffled.

Have you ever wondered why you need to teach positive words to your kids? Is it just because of the etiquettes and manners class or is it beyond that? The answer to these questions is, words matter, ...