According to the federal Department of Education, there are around a million homeless children in the U.S. The Department of Housing and Urban Development counts far fewer. That's because the agencies ...

One of my earliest posts here concerned the definition of play, which I developed further in an article on “Definitions of Play” for Scholarpedia (Gray, 2013) and in my book Free to Learn. I first ...

The U.S. Department of Education and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development define homelessness differently. This has serious consequences for children. According to the federal ...

How Young Children Identify an Activity as Play or Not Play I’ve been wondering how kids themselves, especially young ones, define play. It turns out that there have been quite a few research studies ...

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