Tests Show Four-Year-Olds' Basic Skills Are in Decline ; Home News IN BRIEF
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Children are arriving for their first day at school less able to read, write, add up or play than a year ago, a series of national tests has shown.
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NEW YORK  - After a dramatic leap in survival rates for very low birth weight babies up to 1997, there has been little change in survival or health for these infants since then, a new study shows.
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The reading skills of Japanese 15-year-olds have plummeted over the past few years, leaving Japan lagging behind 13 other countries, a survey by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has shown.
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Technological skills, like maneuvering a mouse, are becoming part of a childâs developmental milestones.
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The length of children&#39;s  fingers may hint at their natural abilities in math and  language, a new study suggests.
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Bedtime stories are proving a struggle for many parents who are not confident readers, says a survey.
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Â· Maths and English hit by decline in trainees  Â· Shortfall will hit schools in summer of 2009
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New findings that attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder may stem from a developmental delay that children could outgrow, rather than a cognitive deficit, have raised questions for parents of the 4.4 million children diagnosed with the disorder.
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US eighth-graders improved their test scores in science and math during the past eight years while fourth-graders&#39; performance dropped, a study of students in 46 countries shows.
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A woman's ability to have a child  using assisted technologies such as test-tube fertilization  plummets to a 4 percent success rate after she turns 42,  according to a U.S. government study published on Friday.
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The report says students are catching up to their worldwide counterparts but fourth-graders are not. By Michael Dobbs / Washington Post.
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Fifteen-year-olds in the United States don't have the math skills to match up to peers in many other industrialized nations, test scores released Monday show.
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A new study suggests that older children tend to have higher IQs than their younger siblings. Now scientists just have to figure out why.
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TOKYO - The reading and mathematical skills of Japanese high school students have markedly declined in the past three years, according to an international student assessment test conducted by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
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An Ofsted study of children's first years of learning shows weaknesses in literacy and calculation.
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Trying to teach parents the skills to communicate with and soothe tantrum-prone children.
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Â· Study of seven-year-olds shows wide gender gap Â· Conservatives accuse ministers of complacency