Children increase their vocabularies when they hear recordings of storybooks being read to them as they read along, a new study from the University of Missouri and the University of South Florida has ...

The revelation on the front page of today’s New York Times is that our old friend (or maybe frenemy?) the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) is getting a much-needed makeover. The essay (a relative ...

CHICAGO — Anyone who has witnessed a 3-year-old imitate a rude hand signal from his car seat knows that young children are perfectly capable of picking up gestures from adults. New research suggests ...

The clues that parents give toddlers about words can make a big difference in how deep their vocabularies are when they enter school, new research at the University of Chicago shows. By using words to ...