Sport or study? It is a perennial debate – and a false one. Rather than playing more sport being the enemy of a child’s ...

In every classroom there are students who struggle more than others and have to work significantly harder than their peers to ...

Researchers from Harvard’s Department of Human Evolutionary Biology found that educated children perform better on psychological tests measuring executive function abilities, challenging the accuracy ...

Professors are afraid to publicly speak out, system leaders left key questions unanswered and advocates worry for LGBTQ+ students’ mental health.

Parents of young children probably recognize the hectic mornings filled with reminding the kids to eat breakfast, brush their teeth and put on their shoes—and hurry up, you're gonna be late! Most ...

Aaron Buss received funding from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. Alexis McCraw does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from ...

Sage Ke'alohilani Quiamno was a few months into her new role as a global DEI leader at Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) when she hit a wall. She told Business Insider she was experiencing a cycle of feeling ...

Objective: This study aimed to systematically examine the relationship between fundamental motor skills (FMS) and executive function (EF) in Chinese children aged 3 to 10 years. The study specifically ...

Executive function—top-down processes by which the human mind controls behavior, regulating thoughts and actions—have long been studied using a standard set of tools, with these assessments being ...

I write a blog post each month focusing on a different executive function skill. Executive function skills are brain-based, and they help people accomplish essential life tasks (Dawson and Guare, 2016 ...

On May 5, 2025, President Donald Trump issued an executive order suspending federal funding for gain-of-function (GoF) research that the administration considers dangerous. GoF research helps ...

Learning specialist Noel Foy helps participants build skills. “Executive Function guides your behavior for most everything you do,” says Noel Foy, a former classroom teacher and learning specialist.