My daughter had a rough 11th grade year at her New York City public school. First, there was a rotating series of Spanish instructors, then an ineffectual pre-calculus teacher. I could have solved ...

Failure is usually treated like a pothole we should ideally swerve around, but kids need to hit at least a few of them for ...

An epidemic of plummeting school standards is spreading throughout the nation in the name of “helping” kids. Alas, it’ll do anything but. Portland schools are mulling the idea of letting kids get away ...

Failure is not separate from learning. When a child fails, something essential happens — which we see if we are attentive. In this world of comparison, failure can turn into shame. We live in a ...

Children struggle with shame and alienation when they are forced to repeat a grade in school. Maskot via Getty Images For decades, schools have allowed children to advance to the next grade even when ...

The post on X from the Stop Having Kids movement read: “Fantastic day of 3-hour-long outreach in New York City at Washington Square Park this past Thursday,” and went on to thank all those who’d ...