Setting and achieving goals helps kids (and grown-ups) build self-esteem — and teaches perseverance, too. When children set goals, it helps them practice executive function skills like planning.

As New Year’s resolutions continue to trend, experts say goal-setting can be especially pivotal for youth. While adults often ...

Research shows guided play is the most effective type of play for helping children learn. Credit: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our ...

Do you want your kids to learn to set achievable goals and work toward them? It’s a great habit to learn, and these growth mindset activities for kids are a terrific way to help teach this important ...

Goals are important for kids and adults alike because they’re motivational. If we know where we want to go, we can find a path. But not all goals have the same impact on our emotional health.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Kate Cassada shares and makes sense of K-12 education practices. Research affirms the powerful ways creative expression can help ...

Award-winning educator Valerie Bolling has written a book about setting writing goals to make the writing process more accessible for students and more manageable for teachers. In addition to her ...

Parents visiting their children’s kindergarten class for the first time may think they’ve arrived at the wrong room, especially if they expect it to resemble the kindergarten they attended as ...

Summer has arrived. For kids, this might mean freedom from schoolwork. But for parents, it can also mean the summer care scramble—the stressful (and expensive) need for working parents to piece ...