The Condition of Education This is a congressionally mandated annual report that contains 48 indicators on conditions and trends in elementary, secondary, postsecondary, and adult education. This report measures the performance of U.S. students...

Findings Could Help Scientists Study Consciousness People with tune deafness aren’t able to tell when a musician accidentally strikes the wrong note in a song, but their brains know the difference. Researchers from the National Institute on...

Scientists at Yale School of Medicine have found that two-year-olds with autism looked significantly more at the mouths of others, and less at their eyes, than typically developing toddlers. This abnormality predicts the level of disability,...

Efforts to establish federal limits on the use of restraint and seclusion in the nation's schools appear to be dead, at least for now, disability advocates are acknowledging. In a meeting last week, Senate staffers who worked on legislation...

Efforts to monitor the progress of U.S. education and respond to its opportunities and challenges depend on reliable, accurate, and timely data. To provide such data, the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) each year submits to...

In an often self-absorbed Silicon Valley, where startups are sometimes accused of obsessing on petty first-world problems instead of making the world a better place, several Bay Area entrepreneurs were honored this week in New York City for...

Three months ago, at age 54, Jeffery O'Keefe embarked on the career of his dreams. Not running a multinational corporation or coaching a professional sports team -- although he does toss around a football fairly often throughout the day while...

For children who struggle to learn language, the choice between various interventions may matter less than the intensity and format of the intervention, a new study sponsored by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication...

Preschool teachers may be able to play a significant role in helping kids with autism improve their language and social skills, a new study suggests. Using a play-based intervention called Joint Attention Symbolic Play Engagement and...

A study found that youth with both attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and internet gaming disorder experienced more severe ADHD symptomatology than youth with ADHD who did not have internet gaming disorder. The purpose of this...