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Last year, the author Gustavo Arellano reminisced about the time he debated conservative Colorado congressman and one-time presidential candidate Tom Tancredo. Their positions were polarized, since...

Last week, a doctor told us our 4-year-old son's IQ is 67.

What he actually said was that its probably somewhere around 67. He wasn't able to get an exact score because Henry couldn't understand entire sections of the test. He did fine with some of the...

I love putting my four-year-old son Henry on the school bus. When he sees it coming, he jumps up and runs toward the door. I walk him out and turn him over to a matron, who helps him climb the stairs. Last year, she always put him in the last...

When Olympic gold medalist Dominique Moceanu published her memoir earlier this summer, fans were stunned by the revelation that she had a younger sister who was born with no legs and given away at birth. The pathos of the story is heightened by the contrast between Moceanu -- who, despite...

Last week my son Henry met his literacy tutor for the first time. This probably doesn't sound earth shattering: there's nothing particularly special about teaching literacy skills to a preschooler. While people may disagree about the appropriate age to start learning to read, the development of literacy -- broadly defined...

"We Jews protest and remonstrate against suffering," writes Rabbi Shmuley Boteach in a recent blog in The Huffington Post. "We don't find spiritual purpose in it. We fight it, and, to the best of our ability, cure it." Boteach rails against those who see the disabled child as...