A Norwegian study of kindergarten children reveals that girls are more interested in language activities than boys. As a result boys may receive less linguistic stimulation and become less prepared ...

Low-income and minority children score much lower on national 8th-grade science tests than their white and more advantaged peers, but those gaps already exist before kids start kindergarten.

It doesn't take long for gaps to appear between children who participate in extracurricular activities and kids who don't, a new study found. It doesn't take long for gaps to appear between children ...

Researchers from multiple countries have noted a critical challenge in early childhood education: children often develop negative perceptions of science as "difficult" before they even reach primary ...