Children and adolescents are getting fewer prescription drugs than they did in years past, according to a study that looks at a cross-section of the American population. "The decrease in antibiotic use is really what's driving this overall decline in prescription medication use that we're...

May 24, 2018

Between 2000 and 2014, more than 150,000 calls were placed to poison control centers to report dangerous exposure by children under the age of 19 to the medications used to treat ADHD, according to a report published this week in Pediatrics¹. That translates to more than 200 calls a week — or 29 calls a day.

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There are many ways young children encounter stories. A new study finds a "Goldilocks effect," where a cartoon may be "too hot" and audiobooks "too cold" for learning readers.

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Q: “My work and home spaces are cluttered. My virtual desktop is usually full, which I fix by periodically sweeping it into a folder called “Sort This Stuff Out.” I have lots of different filing conventions that I sometimes use for a while but not consistently or with discipline. Occasionally I even throw a...

The brain is a muscle. It needs exercise to stay strong. For kids with ADHD or learning disabilities, this is particularly true. They have to work harder to retain all those multiplication tables, punctuation rules, and history facts.

In this video, learn five ways to stop the summer slide, and hold onto the school year’s...

It has happened again--yet another school shooting in our country with multiple fatalities.  This shooting is the 16th school shooting this year, an average of about one every week.  Parents and teachers are terrified, students are marching, politicians are offering thoughts and prayers, and...

Policymakers should consider introducing The Daily Mile to improve the health and fitness of schoolchildren around the world, according to new research led by the Universities of Stirling and Edinburgh. The first study of the popular Daily Mile initiative -- which involves children taking...

About 1 in 5 teens may have contemplated suicide. But new research suggests that schools as a whole can make a difference.

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As teachers walk out in a sixth state, signs of what's to come.

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Human brains are still developing throughout our teenage and early adult years. Knowing more about the way they work can teach us about how schools can work, too.

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