If your child's been injured you may have learned about growth plates, but if not, you may not know what they are or why they are important.

I work from home a few days a week and live a block from the local middle school. Recently, I’ve broken up a group of kids in my yard hitting and fighting with each other. I don’t know these kids, ...

DEAR ABBY: I work from home a few days a week and live a block from the local middle school. Recently, I've broken up a group of kids in my yard hitting and fighting with each other. I don't know ...

Sign up now: Get ST's newsletters delivered to your inbox Rising property costs and wealth transfer see parents increasingly helping children buy private property ...

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 ...

Carbon County Commissioner Sue Jones did something radical: she actually did math. Then she turned down her own $380 property tax exemption. Fire district, school district, soil conservation, weed and ...

Math scores in the U.S. have been so bad for so long that teachers could be forgiven for trying anything to improve them. Unfortunately, many of the strategies they’re using could be making things ...

Call it graduation inflation. The latest California School Dashboard, compiled by the state Board of Education, showed the graduation rate for all students rose to 87.8% in 2025, up 1 percentage point ...

The woman said she's worried about their safety since they often play in the dark on a large hill Getty A woman isn't sure if she's wrong for wanting to ban her neighbor's kids from running on her ...

For the past several years, America has been using its young people as lab rats in a sweeping, if not exactly thought-out, education experiment. Schools across the country have been lowering standards ...

Math scores in the US have been so bad for so long that teachers could be forgiven for trying anything to improve them. Unfortunately, many of the strategies they’re using could be making things worse ...