Innovative technologies—from smartphones and smart TVs to iPads and even Leap Pads for preschoolers—have launched our children into a digital age, a period in which the average teenager texts 60 times every day, a large majority of teens have a social networking site, … Continue reading →

Video, TV, interactive books, screen-based games: Young children today are practically bathed in this stuff as young as toddlerhood. What is the impact? As a parent who is simultaneously fascinated by and worried about the impact of electronic media on … Continue reading →

His comments aren’t likely to ignite a new battle in the bilingual education wars, but U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan over breakfast yesterday gave perhaps his clearest statements to date on the benefits of dual-language development and instruction, especially … Continue reading →

Policy debates about unauthorized immigrants in the United States have tended, until recently, to focus on adults and adolescents. Yet there are a substantial number of children, including many born in the United States, who are affected by current enforcement … Continue reading →