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When does adulthood start?
Here's any idea that will infuriate everyone but might do some good: Let's make 21 the official age of adulthood in America. No buying...

Joanne Jacobs
May 31, 20222 min read


Excellent lambs
Photo: Jonathan Borba/Pexels In the 1960s, campus protesters rejected adult authority, writes William Deresiewicz. Now the “young...

Joanne Jacobs
May 27, 20222 min read


They grow up not so fast
#College #maturity #overparenting

Joanne Jacobs
Sep 8, 20181 min read


Young, passionate — but not wise
The Parkland survivors are experts on how it feels to be terrorized by a gunman. That doesn’t make them experts on what policies would...

Joanne Jacobs
Mar 8, 20182 min read


Red shirts for all? Older is better through college
Older students do better through college, according to a new study by David Figlio, a Northwestern economist, reports John Ydstie on NPR....

Joanne Jacobs
Aug 22, 20172 min read
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