Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Education, at its most engaging, is performance art. From the moment a teacher steps into the classroom, students look to him or ...

What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you’re inside the mind of ...

Teaching magic tricks to children with disabilities can enhance their feelings of self-esteem and confidence, a study has shown. The study, published in Health Psychology Research, is a collaboration ...

It may seem like it would only be of use to pupils at Hogwarts, but teaching children magic could help with their education, it has been suggested. Teaching youngsters magic tricks in the classroom ...

For a lot of kids, writing is a chore. Essays. Journal entries. Book reports. But this month Newbery Honor winner Gail Carson Levine, author of "Ella Enchanted," comes to the rescue with "Writing ...

What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you’re inside the mind of ...