Since I don’t imagine that any state or school district plans to roll back its school attendance requirements—no more than you intended your bored student to leave school and go home—I am not going to debate whether school is or is not a scary place for most kids....

Presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama has once again tried to distance himself from his long-time pastor and mentor Rev. Jeremiah Wright, whose comments about a government conspiracy to commit genocide against blacks and other controversial claims have plagued the Obama campaign in recent days...

It was like opening the New York Times on a Wednesday morning in February 2008 and seeing the headline “Lindbergh Baby Kidnapped” or “Hitler Marches Into Rhineland..."

Girls have a built-in neurological advantage over boys when it comes to language skills, according to new research from Northwestern University and the University of Haifa...