ChatGPT can be tricked into writing a suicide note, designing a starvation diet for an anorexic or offering advice on how to hide intoxication at school.

Illinois already spends a fortune on mental health services for students, and plans to spend more. It won't help.

While nearly all private high schools require summer reading, most public schools do not. Some ask students to listen to music or watch a movie.

Seeking stronger academics and less disruption, parents are choosing private schooling and homeschooling over public middle schools.

Stressed, overparented teens can benefit from a lazy, unenriched summer.

Teenagers are deeply addicted to their phones. Schools must lock the phones away all day to enable them to learn.

Fewer high school graduates are enrolling in four-year colleges, and more say they're "working toward a career goal."

It's not just smartphones: Classroom laptops are distracting students, say teachers.

Connection leads to happiness. Covid rules isolated teens. "My friends were untouchable, unreachable, masked."

Is ADHD a medical disorder best treated with drugs?

The college essay favors students who know how to exaggerate their adversity and fake humility.

Cleveland is honoring a 16-year-old boy who rescued a neighbor and her two children from a burning house.

British schools may show Netflix's "Adolescence" to warn students about online misogyny and "incel culture."

Students are less independent, more likely to ask their parents to protect them from any effort.

Teens average 90 minutes each school day on their phones.

A new California law urges school to set homework policies that ease stress and promote "equity."

Do American kids need more math tutoring and fewer sleepovers?

"Ohio" means "weird" in Gen Alpha slang. Hmmmm.

Teenagers in 2024 are less likely to use drugs, alcohol or nicotine and many are postponing driving, work and sex.

Teenagers are working less and earning higher grades. Everybody's "phoning it in."