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One day last fall, Kristine Barrios’ 9-year-old daughter got stuck on a lesson in IXL, the personalized learning software that served as her math teacher. She had to multiply three three-digit numbers ...

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A major new study has found that verbal abuse in childhood may be just as damaging to long-term mental well-being as physical abuse, if not more so. This groundbreaking research highlights the need to ...

Cruel words can leave a mark on a child –– and may have as much of an impact as physical abuse, new research has found. People who experienced physical abuse as a child were at a 50% increased risk ...

At Austin’s Alpha School, students spend just two hours a day on academics, led by artificial intelligence tools. New Alpha schools are set to open in about a dozen cities this fall. Alpha School, ...

Weighing up to 200 pounds, California’s wild pigs live in 56 out of 58 counties. These hybrid creatures — part domesticated pig, part wild boar — have been wreaking havoc throughout the state for the ...

Amid fast technological and societal transformation, the careers awaiting Generation Alpha—those born between 2010 and 2025—are largely still conceptual. Around two in three Gen Alphas will work in ...

While it's true that words don't leave a physical mark on the body the way physical abuse does, the things we say can absolutely be weaponized to cause real and measurable harm to others. "The effects ...

Abandoned at an airport in China, then adopted by a photographer, Piggy the piglet grew up in front of the camera—and changed everything for his new family. Since 2017, Feng Li has been documenting ...

Gen Alpha, or those born after 2010, have developed their own terminology from 'skibidi' to 'fanum tax' Getty Gen Alpha have their own grasp on vocabulary that elder generations may call "sus," but ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Calling someone a male chauvinist pig offers sweet revenge, a chance to dehumanize ...