Clubs, sports, and other extracurricular activities have benefits beyond looking good on college applications.

For many students, balancing extracurricular activities with the demands of schoolwork can be a challenging task. While participating in these activities can provide numerous benefits, including ...

Should parents force kids to pursue activities (music or athletic lessons, for example) in order to learn things that can benefit them? The lesson is not to do something we hate just to say we did it.

A new initiative from the nonprofit STEM Next Opportunity Fund is expanding extracurricular school programming as a vehicle for AI learning in four states. The pilot program, announced in a news ...

From cheering hard to studying hard, our Scholar Athlete of the Week is Matthew Kroll! Matthew recently graduated from ...

It’s no secret that everyday life was disrupted during the pandemic, and kids’ normal routines were shattered. Relationships, interactions, outside school activities, and school itself were sacrificed ...

Listening to mom-to-mom conversations swirling around lately, it’s not a stretch of the imagination to believe the reason we send kids back to school is because moms need a break from the kids, and ...

Soft skills such as organisation, communication and networking are often developed outside the classroom. Here’s how universities can help their students learn vital life skills Beyond a beautiful ...

Note: Jonathan Plucker, the Raymond Neag Professor of Education at the University of Connecticut, is guest posting this week. He can be found on Twitter at @JonathanPlucker. My thoughts today are ...

If you’re worried about your kids’ mental health, particularly because of the Covid-19 pandemic and social distancing mandates, less screen time and more extracurricular activities will help, says a ...