TAMPA, Fla. — Parents of some Hillsborough County 7th grade students are expressing concern over an upcoming lesson on sexual health. The lesson is intended to be taught as part of science class.

“Do you know what a frog is?” Kimi Pu, 9, asks her dad with a grin, pointing at a fork. “Frog?” he repeats, sheepish but smiling. “Frog’ is an animal—this is a fork.” “Fork! Sorry!” he says. “Great ...

Jeffrey S. Solochek is an education reporter covering K-12 education policy and schools. Reach him at [email protected]. Anyone can view a sampling of recent comments, but you must be a Times ...

MONROE, La. (KNOE) - Before there was Mr. Rogers or Sesame Street, there was Captain Kangaroo. The children’s show launched on CBS and KNOE on Oct. 3, 1955. The Captain and his friends, Mr. Green ...

Dan Garisto is a science journalist in Syracuse, New York. “When you shut it down, you have to do lay-offs. So, we’d be laying off a lot of people that are going to be very affected,” Trump said on 30 ...

What do we know about the causes of autism? Laura Andreae, Professor of Developmental Neuroscience at King’s College London explains the science. It’s after President Trump made unproven claims the ...

Blue jays (Cyanocitta cristata) and green jays (Cyanocorax yncas) are both types of corvids, a family of birds that also includes crows and ravens. Despite their similar names, blue jays and green ...

MOSCOW — A powerful 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck early Saturday near the east coast of Russia’s Kamchatka region, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. The quake’s epicenter was 69.3 miles east of ...