Little kids are looking at a lot of dots these days. The theory behind this increasingly popular practice is that an effective way to teach counting might be by … not counting. That’s the ...

BAD ALPHABET and counting books are easy to come by these days. Because the market for children’s books continues to grow despite the recession, some publishers rush to print books of dubious quality.

Technology can positively shape early childhood social skills, a new study reveals, provided adult guidance optimises its use. While excessive screen time deters crucial face-to-face interaction, ...

“It’s kind of counterintuitive,” Google cofounder Larry Page remarked a couple of years ago. “Normally in a business, you think about, ‘What’s the adjacent thing that I can do?’ But maybe you can ...

• How Many Baby Pandas? by Sandra Markle (Walker, $15.99, ages 4 to 8) -- Youngsters learn basic counting skills as they view photographs of the eight super-cute panda pairs born in 2005 at China's ...

Here is an abbreviated list of the people and works cited in The Atlantic’s 1859 essay “Ought Women to Learn the Alphabet?”: Socrates, Joan of Arc, Moliere, Ovid, Sappho, Charlemagne, Mohammed, Boaz, ...