This story appears in the June 2011 issue of National ... nearby school only through fifth grade; beyond that, there's the daily bus ride to town, amid crowded-in, predatory men. The middle ...

And what I want you to know is that the adults of that school are working hard to answer those questions. How do you feel about what is happening?” Older, middle-school-age children are likely ...

Today’s teaching methods prioritize creative problem-solving over traditional formulas and equations, but these changes may ...

This story appears in the January 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine ... mosquito bite on Skyler’s forehead in both. In high school the brothers were wrestlers; the ref would sometimes ...

This story appears in the May 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine ... through the Ming dynasty (1368-1644) and into the middle of the Qing dynasty (1645-1912). When China's need for ...

She has always felt more boyish than girlish. From an early age, E, as she prefers to be called for this story, hated wearing dresses, liked basketball, skateboarding, video games. When we met in ...

This story appears in the March 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine ... scribbling on a blackboard at the end of a busy day at school. The popular notion that they can be seen only from ...

As he retraces our ancestors’ global migration on foot, the author sees Afghanistan's peaceful villages—and reminders that tensions persist.

Skyscrapers meet the sea in South Korea’s second-largest city. And as the home of the first surf schools in the country, it’s ...

But according to recent imaging studies of children conducted over a period of years at UCLA and the National Institute ... non-Asian freshmen at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New ...

This story appears in the August 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine ... and the tiny muscles in our middle ear, even in silence, move as though hearing. We are sexually stimulated ...

This story appears in the December 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine ... were near the middle of the tunnel. They were trying to wedge a piece of plywood into the wall to shore it ...