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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
Jun 1, 20222 min read
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Excellent lambs
Photo: Jonathan Borba/Pexels In the 1960s, campus protesters rejected adult authority, writes William Deresiewicz. Now the “young...

Joanne Jacobs
May 28, 20222 min read
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They grow up not so fast
#College #maturity #overparenting

Joanne Jacobs
Sep 9, 20181 min read
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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
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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 23, 20172 min read
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