NEW YORK (AP) — Mattel Inc. is introducing an autistic Barbie on Monday as the newest member of its line intended to ...

The new doll carries a pink fidget spinner that actually spins, wears pink noise-cancelling headphones to reduce sensory overload and holds a pink tablet that represents her augmentative and ...

In sum: Test scores have been trending down for over a decade. There are some signs of recovery in math, but not many in ...

Curio, a Redwood City startup, sells stuffed animals, including a talking rocket plushie called Grok that’s voiced by artist Grimes, who has children with billionaire Elon Musk. Bondu, a San Francisco ...

Kristi Noem’s acting security agency head reportedly failed a lie-detector test required to view sensitive spy materials—then blamed his subordinates and suspended them. Madhu Gottumukkala, the acting ...

Setting aside time in the school day to teach students social-emotional skills, such as emotional regulation and perspective-taking, can substantially boost students’ grade-point averages and ...

Jeanne DeRosa is a middle school math teacher in Natick who moonlights as a stand-up comedian. Her comedic persona, "MAD Barbie," focuses on her life as a middle-aged, divorced woman. DeRosa began her ...

The writing’s on the wall — if you can read it. Sobering national test results show more high school seniors are struggling with math and reading than at any point in recent decades, with Education ...

North Carolina students are making big gains in math, though they remain behind the proficiency rates of 2018 and 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic closed schools, new data from the North Carolina ...

Ruth Handler, who co-founded Mattel with her husband, Elliot Handler, and Harold Matson in 1945, noticed her daughter, Barbara, playing with paper dolls and dreaming about what kind of woman she would ...

The stars of 'Barbie,' Margot Robbie, Issa Rae, America Ferrera, Kate McKinnon & Greta Gerwig, test who knows one another best in this episode of Vanity Fair Game Show. They filmed a movie together, ...

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