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  • New Study: Private School Students Ahead of Their Public School Peers by Two Years

    New Study: Private School Students Ahead of Their Public School Peers by Two Years0

    Last year a report from the Friedman Foundation found that only 9% of parents send their child to a private school. However, if given the means and opportunity to send their child to the school of their choice, 41% of parents would pick a private school. Those numbers seem especially important with the release of

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  • New Study: Parenting More Effective than Ritalin for ADHD

    New Study: Parenting More Effective than Ritalin for ADHD0

    Do you believe that kids today are overmedicated for issues like ADHD? If so, a new study out of the Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology may lend credibility to your belief. According to The New York Times: “The study enrolled 146 children with an A.D.H.D. diagnosis from ages 5 to 12 and randomly

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  • New Study: Marriage is Better for the Economy

    New Study: Marriage is Better for the Economy0

    It’s no secret that married parents are better for children. But did you know that married parents are also better for a state’s economy? That’s the finding from a new study released by the American Enterprise Institute. States which have 75% or more of their children living in married households – such as Utah, Idaho,

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  • New Study: Big Kids Love Bedtime Stories, Too

    New Study: Big Kids Love Bedtime Stories, Too0

    Kids think bedtime stories are just for babies, right? Wrong. According to a recent survey conducted by Scholastic in Great Britain, nearly 40% of children ages 6-8 and 30% of children ages 9-11 regretted the fact that their parents stopped reading aloud to them. In the U.S., those numbers are even greater, as shown by

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  • New Study: 1 in 4 City-Dwelling Students Don’t Graduate

    New Study: 1 in 4 City-Dwelling Students Don’t Graduate0

    • October 8, 2015

    City living seems to be growing in popularity in recent years, undoubtedly driven by the many conveniences life in the metro can bring. But not every aspect of city life is advantageous, particularly when it comes to education. The Center for Reinventing Public Education (CRPE) just released a new analysis on the state of education

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  • New Study Suggests Manners Might Reduce Obesity

    New Study Suggests Manners Might Reduce Obesity0

    Across the political spectrum an overwhelming majority of adults believe that it’s important to teach children to be well-mannered. Yet in spite of this widespread agreement, the growing popularity of etiquette classes signal that few people actually know what good manners really entail. As it turns out, good manners may solve more than America’s rudeness

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