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  Lauren Mills is only 13 years old, but the legally blind teen has been creating art for as long as she can remember. Lauren has Nystagmus, a condition that causes involuntary, fast-paced eye-movement. But the 9th grader at Peterson Seventh-Day Adventist Academy (US) is proving to be a shining inspiration to many who meet […]

  Few children spent their summer vacations practicing bar modeling or calculating word problems. However, this fall, it is expected that students will learn to reason abstractly and quantitatively and apply math skills to real-world situations. This means your child will be learning math in a much different way than you did, and it’s more

  Middle-class parents who shout at their teenage children are increasing their risk of depression and troubled behaviour. Even if parents enjoy a close relationship with their son and daughter, harsh verbal discipline was found have a dramatic impact on their teens’ emotional development, a study found. This form of discipline can vary from yelling

  Talking with an adolescent can be like walking through a minefield; at any moment, you could be asking what you thought was a simple, sincere question, only to find it triggering an explosive response. Research proves our instincts: The number one antidote to risky kid behavior is a strong relationship with a parent. Believe

  Are students prepared for the future? Are they graduating ready to innovate? What are some of the skills students should have in order to have a successful future? Those are some of the questions Tony Wagner  (follow him on Twitter @DrTonyWagner) answers in a powerful talk all about the skills students must have for

In secondary school, I was the type of person who felt no reason to read. For my history classes, the only parts of the textbooks I read were section heads, words in boldface type, and highlighted passages. Spark notes got me through my English classes, and for everything else there was Wikipedia. Sure, I read

Are students prepared for the future? Are they graduating ready to innovate? What are some of the skills students should have in order to have a successful future? Those are some of the questions Tony Wagner  (follow him on Twitter @DrTonyWagner) answers in a powerful talk all about the skills students must have for the

  (By Stefanie Weisman) Top students aren’t made, they’re born. After effortlessly absorbing whatever the teacher throws at them, they spout it back on tests and watch the A’s come rolling in. They have exceptionally high IQs, making it next to impossible for the rest of the class to compete with them. They’re the ones

  (By Mairo Danlami) We hear a lot about autism in the news and from families who care for children with autism. We don’t hear nearly often enough, however, from children who actually live with autism. A speech by one young man, Eli Rosenberg, shows that we should do more to help one another. He

  (By Uchechukwu Udoji) Last month at the Ideas Festival in Aspen, Design For Change founder Kiran Sethi shared with HuffPost Live the two words that can open doors for children around the world: “I can.” Sethi first spoke about the ‘I Can’ teaching model in a 2009 TED Talk. She then brought the idea