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"Jeopardy!" champ Ken Jennings' new book, "Because I Said So!", breaks down common myths parents tell their children.

Harlem parents have been expressing frustration at the still limited number of high-quality choices in the city’s push to add charter schools in the neighborhood.

Parents at a Brooklyn elementary school are furious over a fifth-grade teacher’s bathroom policy that prohibits students from jetting to the john more than three times a week.

With hack days and e-petitions they're pushing for education to keep up with the digital economy. People of an older vintage tend to balk when they see seven-year-olds blithely reprogramming their TV sets, or changing the background on their smartphones. But a few among them believe kids have even more potential when it comes to software — they can actually create programs, if they’re only taught how.

Candy shaped like marijuana that's showing up on store shelves around the country won't get kids high, but aghast city leaders and anti-drug activists say the product and grocers carrying it represent a new low....

The number of athletic children going to hospitals with concussions is up 60 percent in the past decade, a finding that is likely due to parents and coaches being more careful about...

Health officials are concerned about the trend at a time when many infectious diseases are making a comeback.

Bumble-Ardy, Maurice Sendak’s first full-production picture book since Outside Over There (1981), is both ageless and fresh. Kids will delight in its whimsical, dangerous world—where grotesquery is the norm and anything can happen. Parents will appreciate the tale’s reflection that even wild revelries have their purpose.

“The vulgar new flavor has turned something as innocent as ice cream into something repulsive,” the group One Million Moms posted on its website.

One in five American moms have kids who have different birth fathers, a new study shows. And when researchers look only at moms with two or more kids, that figure is even higher: 28 percent have kids with at least two different men.