Amid consistently bad news for US education, one development in public schools is so horrifying, few would believe it’s even ...

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Tisha Campbell is opening up in her new memoir about her motherhood journey and the experience of raising her autistic son, Xen.

For decades, autism was believed to overwhelmingly affect boys. Yet a big new study out of Sweden provides perhaps the best ...

Growing up in Nigeria as a child, Essien said he was lucky to live in a home filled with books. His parents were both ...

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Travis Jonker is a children’s book author and illustrator, and the librarian at Dorr Elementary School in Dorr, Mich.

Oregon’s version of Imagination Library, an initiative launched by superstar Dolly Parton to send a free book each month to babies and preschoolers, mailed its 4 millionth book to an Oregon child last ...

It’s 7am and Maddie Lewis, 16, is eating cereal in self-absorbed delight. Ignoring my arrival, she doesn’t look up when I sit beside her at the kitchen table. Engrossed in her iPad, she ­replays over ...

Means told a Senate committee that each “patient, mother, parent” should have a conversation with their doctor about ...