An Andover preschool has hired an unusual teachers aide — one with metal joints and blinking, blue eyes — to help children on the autism spectrum. Since late November, nearly two dozen students at ...

At Brooklyn Preschool of Science, I’ve been using robots to make computational learning fun in my 4-year-old rooms for years. When I decided to add computational learning to the 3-year-old group, I ...

Children's book author Peter Brown wrote his original "Wild Robot" book in Maine and now lives there among nature. (Yoon S. Byun / For The Times) There are rare moments in the culture when a ...

There are rare moments in the culture when a children's book resonates with everyone. Parents who buy the book for their kids find themselves moved by a story that is not intended for them but somehow ...