The latest data from the 2024 Nation's Report Card is a sobering indictment of the state of American education. While slight improvements in math scores offer a glimmer of hope, the continued decline ...

Tallie Z. Baram receives funding from the National Institutes of Health, the Bren Foundation, and the Hewitt Foundation for Biomedical Research. Scientists have long known that the experiences you ...

The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. Parents often receive books at pediatric checkups via programs like Reach ...

Parents and pediatricians know that reading to infants is a good thing, but new research shows reading books that clearly name and label people and objects is even better. Parents and pediatricians ...

In honor of Banned Books Week, it's a good time to look at ways to curate your child's reading without taking books away from other children, something happening with increasing frequency around ...

In 2017, Pamela Paul, the editor of The New York Times Book Review, and Maria Russo, the publication’s children's books editor, published their expansive article “How To Raise A Reader”. The piece, ...

Representation matters — and that includes on your child’s bookshelf. Whether you’re a parent in a same-sex relationship or are just looking to diversify your child’s library, there are an increasing ...