A team of researchers from McGill and Université de Montréal's Observatoire pour l'éducation et la santé des enfants (OPES, or observatory on children's health and eduation), led by Sylvana Côté, ...

The interdepartmental children's studies minor offers a multidisciplinary perspective on children and childhood to help students achieve a deeper and broader understanding of children and childhood.

San Francisco Unified School District parents are speaking out now that the district is requiring ninth graders to take a two-semester ethnic studies class. Just days before the 2024-25 school year, ...

Kids learn how to behave, speak, and interact with others from their parents — the first relationships and people they're surrounded by in their lives. However, they also tend to learn more nuanced ...

Children in Gaza are too hungry, traumatized and exhausted to learn or play as education systems across Palestine near ...

While regulators and educators scramble to make sense of generative AI’s impact on adults, a quieter, more urgent reality is emerging. Children are already deep into using these tools, and the tools ...

It might finally be time to set those parental controls. New research suggests that social media isn’t just feeding your kid the latest memes — it may actually be messing with their brainpower. The ...

Researchers found smartphones may boost kids' mental health, social ties Kids with phones reported higher self-esteem, fewer feelings of depression Study suggests it's not screen time, but how kids ...

Behaviors that are typically associated with "spoiled" children, like an aura of self-centeredness and entitlement, are generally misunderstood in family dynamics, according to a study from the ...

As talk about banning phones in schools increases, a new study revealed that the average teen spends a quarter of their school day scrolling. Research led by the Seattle Children’s Research Institute ...

From Nobel winners to Olympic champions, a new study finds childhood stardom is a poor predictor of world-class success.

Elaine Chen covers biotech, co-writes The Readout newsletter, and co-hosts STAT’s weekly biotech podcast, The Readout Loud. You can reach Elaine on Signal at elaineywchen.70. Elizabeth Cooney is a ...