Marcel Proust wrote: “Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy. They are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” What a beautiful sentiment, and powerfully true. Everyone needs ...

As part of Education Week’s new project, The State of Teaching, educators from around the country share the most rewarding and challenging parts of their lives as teachers. Kiminaq Maddy ...

Friendship Aspire Academy has opened what officials hope is a year-round water safety program for its elementary students. About a dozen kindergartners through third graders took swimming lessons at ...

High school is a fast-paced, shifting social landscape where old friends can drift away and social status takes on greater importance. This is also a time when many kids shift their primary friendship ...

In my work with emerging adults, it isn’t uncommon to have 18- to 22-year-olds tell me that their parent (often their mother) is their closest confidante and one of the few people they trust. It’s ...

At first glance they may seem like nothing more than pretty plastic accessories, but Jewelbots are a new high-tech way to communicate in today’s mobile world. Targeted at middle-school-aged girls, ...

UB researchers have received a nearly $649,000 grant to develop a new sexual assault prevention training program that aims to transform friends of victims from bystanders into guardians. The training ...