Today:Early fog in the far southwest clears quickly. Most areas stay dry with sunshine and variable cloud, though northern and northeastern regions may see isolated showers. Light winds overall, ...

There's no doubt that the early 1970’s captured some of the greatest moments in Philadelphia sports history, with each professional sports franchise showcasing the emerging talent of a young player ...

For too long media has perpetuated the falsehood of the shrew wife, withholding sex at her whim, and the horndog husband, desperate for affection. This uneven dynamic is often compounded when the ...

Play-based learning is used a lot in the educational community, especially in the early childhood years. But what exactly does it mean? There’s no doubt that children need time to just be children and ...

Easter is a very special festival in the Christian calendar. It celebrates Jesus rising from the dead, three days after he was executed. The week leading up to Easter Sunday is called Holy Week, which ...

When the Chinese city of Shanghai took part in the three-yearly Pisa test of 15-year-olds' academic ability in 2009 and 2012 it topped the table in maths, leaving countries such as Germany the UK and ...

Joel Warner reports on the Netflix CEO’s attempts to disrupt public education. Reed Hastings (Photo: James Duncan Davidson/O’Reilly Media, Inc.) Brett Bymaster, a Silicon Valley electrical engineer, ...

Children learn about the social and physical world by observing other people’s acts. This experiment tests both Chinese and American children’s learning of a rule. For theoretical reasons we chose the ...

Welcome to Random Roles, wherein we talk to actors about the characters who defined their careers. The catch: They don’t know beforehand what roles we’ll ask them to talk about. The actor: Christopher ...

What do we talk about when we talk about literature? In the modern parlance, the term is associated with its academic context, referring to the enduring works of fiction, philosophy, history, etc.