"H3N2 was the dominant strain in the winter of 2014-15, when Minnesota reported more than 700 school outbreaks and 10 deaths ...

A Twin Cities metro area school shifted to e-learning after a flu outbreak impacted nearly a quarter of its students. A senior epidemiologist with the Department of Health said flu season is ...

Data privacy is equally important. Children often share personal information online without understanding the consequences. Cybercriminals exploit this vulnerability for identity theft, fraud, or ...

We’ve created a generation — parents and children alike — paralyzed by numerators without denominators. A single alarming number, stripped of all context, deployed to trigger fear and compliance. And ...

A movement to help students understand rather than memorize has had sprawling effects, including pushback on teaching methods ...

One afternoon, Lori Anderson and her 7-year-old, Lindsey, spotted a small maple tree in La Mirada, California. Anderson asked her daughter how many leaves she thought were on the tree. Lindsey’s guess ...

Educators and administrators in recent years have been eager to reimagine math instruction. Troubled by high failure rates in ...

What's the best way for children to learn arithmetic—memorizing number values and multiplication tables, or studying math at a deeper, conceptual level? Educators have long debated the merits of these ...

The vaccines were found to decrease the risk of needing medical care in the first six months after vaccination by 76 percent in children under 4, and by 56 percent in children 5 to 17. By Apoorva ...

Francis Duah does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

Zooey Deschanel hasn’t been able to take her family through the seven levels of the Candy Cane forest, past the sea of twirly-swirly gum drops. “A bunch of my daughter's friends were talking about it, ...

Climate change could pose a threat to children's intellectual development, a new study says. Kids growing up under higher-than-usual temperatures -- average temps above 86 degrees Fahrenheit -- are ...