I walk every day, do weight training two to three days a week and go to a weekly Zumba class. In the summer, I swim every day. If my...

Colorado is investing in school counselors to improve success rates for low-income students reports Hechinger’s Sarah Gonser. As of 2016,...

A high school teacher might see eight to 30 students a day with serious mental health issues such as bipolar disorder, depression and...

California, Illinois and New York legislators are considering banning children from playing tackle football because of the risks of brain...

Everyone took Health in ninth grade. We girls — the boys had a separate class — learned that smoking, drinking, drugs (heroin) and sex...

Lonely and miserable, the Florida shooter played video games for as much as 15 hours a day, Paul Gold, a former neighbor, told the Miami...

Don’t blame technology for teen suicides, writes Mike Males in the Washington Monthly. Rates are much higher for rural and small-town...

Some 2.7 percent of teens identified themselves as transgender or “gender non-conforming” (TGNC) in a study of Minnesota teenagers in...

Boston will eliminate middle schools under a plan proposed by Superintendent Tommy Chang. The city already has created a number of K-8...

Apple should design parental controls to keep kids from overusing iPhones, argue two major shareholders in a Jan. 6 letter, reports Luke...

To give teens more time to sleep, Boston Public Schools will start high schools later and elementary and K-8 schools earlier. Most high...

Iceland’s teens are much less likely to get drunk, use drugs or smoke since the country focused on the problem in 1998, reports BBC News....

You’d never see this ad on American TV, says Let Grow. #Norway #play

Teens aren’t getting enough sleep, concludes an analysis by Jean Twenge, a San Diego State psychology professor. In two surveys, 40...

Students with mental-health problems, especially anxiety and depression, are flooding college health centers. The most selective colleges...

Severe anxiety afflicts more U.S. teens than ever, writes Benoit Denizet-Lewis in the New York Times Magazine. What’s going on? Over the...

Vermont is granting fewer exemptions to its mandatory vaccination law, reports Ed Week‘s Lisa Stark on PBS Newshour. #vaccination #Vermont

The average child gets his or her first smartphone at age 10, but some parents are pledging to keep their kids smartphone-free till...

More than four in five high schools start the day earlier than sleep researchers recommend, reports Sarah D. Sparks in Education Week....

The “super-connected,” smartphone-addicted teens of “iGen” are lonely and unhappy, writes Jean M. Twenge in The Atlantic. “Rates of teen...