My 24th birthday looms, which means about 17 of my Aprils on this Earth (give or take a few for my infancy and Barbie phase) have been spent watching baseball. April is all about firsts. The first ...

To find talented children who historically have been overlooked in gifted education, Wheeler Elementary educators are learning to see their students in a new way. Early one morning this fall, 3rd ...

The children huddle over their individual green chalkboards, their desks pushed together in groups of four or five. Each child wears a little white sport sock over one hand and holds a piece of chalk ...

At Wonderland Avenue Elementary School in Laurel Canyon, there are lesson plans on diverse families -- including those with two mommies or daddies -- books on homosexual authors in the library and a ...