The complexity of meaning carried in our voices — including pitch, tone, volume, and emphasis, qualities known as vocalics — is extraordinary. There is a strong and consistent association between the ...

Kindness toward others is often taught in elementary school, but it’s also important for students to extend it to themselves.

Or maybe it was the fund-raisers he organized for juvenile diabetes and the Water Street Rescue Mission. Whatever was behind the judges decision, Mike Burcin, principal of Martin Meylin Middle School, ...

It was a chorus of “No’s” as we walked through the store the other day. My oldest daughter, who is 8 now, wants for nothing but still wants everything. It doesn’t matter what store we are in, either.

This collection of essays, compiled by Patricia O. Bjorhovde, offers advice to teachers, directors of nonprofit groups, and others who want to encourage youths in the United States to become ...