Considering what passed for children’s fashion in the 1970s when I started elementary school—patterned polyester pants with coordinating turtlenecks—it’s no surprise that picking out new clothes was ...

Our Tools of the Trade series is exploring some of the icons of schools and education. It was made of shiny, bright pink plastic with a Little Mermaid sticker on the front, and I carried it with me ...

As the nation marched bravely towards the new millennium, the advent of the internet opened up a whole new world of mass media marketing directed at kids. My friends and I were totally engrossed in ...