With pollen and other spring allergens in the air, researchers investigated whether place of birth affected the risk of developing allergies, and the answer turns out to be — yes Having an allergic reaction — with its sneezing, wheezing, itchy eyes and runny nose — is an all too familiar experience ...

The rates of U.S. children affected by attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are skyrocketing, according to a recent report, but experts caution that the latest numbers require a bit of decoding. That information shows that 11% of children aged four to 17 were diagnosed with ADHD, a 16% increase since 2007, the last ...

A Georgia kindergarten teacher has made more than $1 million selling her lesson plans online. Can U.S schools crowdsource their way to better student performance? You won’t get rich as a teacher, right? That’s no longer true for a small but growing number of educators who are making big bucks selling ...

Children who have made the leap to fluent reading will learn exponentially, while those who haven't will slump Take a guess: What is the single most important year of an individual’s academic career? The answer isn’t junior year of high school, or senior year of college. It’s third grade. What makes success ...

Voting is not optional in 23 countries. Here's why the United States should become the 24th Eleven weeks before Election Day we can’t know who will win the presidency. But we can know with near certainty that voter turnout will be abysmal and that the results will be not so much ...

Recently, Chick-Fil-A CEO Dan Cathy had some unkind things to say about gay families, and a lot of people (present company included) didn’t care for his comments one bit. That shouldn’t surprise you: I’m a gay man, I’m married, I’m from the South — raised in a Southern Baptist family ...

Not allowing people access to weapons capable of mass destruction does not impede the right to self-defense or to hunt I believe in the constitutional right of citizens to keep and bear arms for self-defense — the protection of life and property. I believe in the right of a person to ...

Free classes from elite colleges like Princeton and Harvard have generated a ton of excitement, but they could actually widen the learning gap You have probably heard some of the hoopla about elite universities offering free online courses through Coursera, a new Silicon Valley start-up founded by Stanford University computer science ...