One of the most hotly contested teaching practices concerns a single minute of math class. This story also appeared in Mind/Shift Should teachers pull out their stopwatches and administer one-page ...

Wellspring Academy is designed to help students who are overweight or obese. May 23, 2012— -- Wellspring Academy is unlike any other school in the United States. It's a boarding school for ...

Because obesity is a complex problem, we must be cautious when we accept easy answers for why children are gaining weight rapidly. Suppose we believe obesity is simply due to eating too much and not ...

Dale Knuth, now 58, says in childhood her weight was a source of anguish — largely because of how her family treated her. "I had a brother who tormented me constantly," she says. "If I came home from ...