Stretching your ability to focus is good for the brain. Paying close attention like that encourages the brain to pump more acetylcholine (a brain chemical important for learning, attention, and memory ...

Brain exercises can help keep you mentally sharp at any age. Try these exercises for all ages, adults, and older adults that ...

A new study found that older adults can perform better on thinking and memory tests after 6 months of aerobic exercise. Aerobic exercise gets the blood moving through your body and to your brain.

Corrected: A previous version of this essay misstated the title of the author’s co-authored book. It is called Build Reading Fluency (Shell Education Publishing, 2023). The first post-pandemic ...

When Kusum Sinha, the superintendent of Garden City Public Schools in New York, took a trip this summer to Finland, Estonia ...

Your fourth-grader is galloping through Lois Lowry's utopian novel "The Giver," and you marvel at her reading speed. Stop marveling. Most likely she has little idea what the book actually means. In ...

“Because we do so much multi-step problem solving, and we’re doing two-step word problems, if they’re spending 10-15 minutes trying to figure out what 9x7 is, they’re doing a lot of extra work, or ...