How severe is the global learning crisis? Only a third of all 10-year-olds are able to read and understand a simple written story. Children attend class at a UNICEF-supported school in Mbandaka, in ...

Nearly six-out-of-ten children globally are estimated to be affected by learning poverty, meaning they are unable to read and understand a simple text by the age of ten. In low- and middle-income ...

This is Part 4 of a five-part series on cognition and consciousness. Part 1 explored what we mean by "cognition." In Parts 2 and 3, we examined neuroscientist Joseph LeDoux’s strict definition, which ...