The younger children are when they get their first smartphone the higher the risk of depression, obesity and poor sleep habits.

Teenagers aren't learning work skills in entry-level jobs. Employers prefer to hire immigrants.

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.

Simplistic, heavily political YA books turn students off to reading.

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

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.

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

A young woman is suing "gender affirming care" providers for starting her on drugs and surgery at age 12.

More than 3 percent of high school students identify as transgender, more than double the number a few years ago.

Teenagers 16 and 17 year old will be able to vote for school board in Oakland and Berkeley.

British mother persuaded teens to go smartphone-free for a month, then camp out for the weekend on their own.

Teens aren't quite as sad or suicidal as they were in 2021, reports the CDC, but violence, bullying and school avoidance are up.

#TamponTim is in the news, tweets Kira Davis. Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz requires schools to provide free menstrual products in all school...

Middle school is the worst. Kids hit puberty and turn deeply stupid for a few years before they learn to handle it. Even so, the seventh...

Mental health awareness campaigns aimed at teenagers may backfire, writes Ellen Barry in the New York Times. While the truly troubled may...

Chronic absenteeism is way up, writes Robert Pondiscio, but kids aren't just absent from school. A disturbing number of young people are...

In an Education Week survey, 55 percent of principals said banning TikTok would "make their jobs easier," reports Olina Banerji. TikTok...

Seventy-two percent of teenagers say they often or sometimes feel "peaceful" when they're without their smartphones, according to a Pew...