I visited Toy Fair in New York City hunting for ideas for our summer series about kids' culture. One of the big takeaways was the increasing popularity of construction games such as Legos. Sales shot ...

Travel building toys sounds like an oxymoron. But building doesn't have to mean Lego or wooden-block edifices that sprawl ...

With a rocky year of pandemic-related educational disruptions ahead, many parents are looking for ways to help their kids learn at home. Toys advertised as teaching STEM might seem like one way to ...

ATLANTA — Students gathered around a bright blue number board in Melissa Williams’ kindergarten class at the Westminster School, gazing at the bank of 100 blank squares, organized in rows and columns ...

Toys don’t have to be high-tech to teach kids how to code. Take, for example, the toys from startup Learning Beautiful, featured at the newly redesigned Thomas Hughes Children’s Library at the Harold ...

Corrected: An earlier version of this story misspelled the name of Julie Sarama, a researcher who has developed strategies for building the mathematical skills of preschool students. A pair of New ...