Arts Involvement Narrows Student Achievement Gap
Students from the lower end of the socioeconomic ladder tend to do less well in school than those from more upscale families. But newly published research identifies one sub-group of these youngsters...
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Pitfalls of the Teen Dating Scene
As someone who didn’t have, ahem, a wealth of opportunity to explore the high school dating scene, my interactions with female classmates came primarily in the form of AOL instant messages and...
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What Are the Teens Up to Nowadays?
Teens! We never know what they’re doing, do we? (Oh, jeez. Do you #FollowATeen?) Teens are just so mysterious—like those weird deep-sea fish that have flashlights growing from their faces. We know...
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Teens Care About Online Privacy—Just Not the Same Way You Do
The latest round of research on teenagers and digital privacy is out, this time in the form of a joint study by the Pew Research Center and the Berkman Center for Internet Society. The results of the...
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The Shocking Level of Dating Violence Among Teens and Adolescents
For all the recent hand-wringing over “cyberbullying” in schools, an older and more insidious type of bullying unfortunately remains, according to a new study: teen dating abuse. About one third of...
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Is Pop Music Turning Teens Into Alcoholics?
There’s a long-simmering debate in America over whether or not alcohol references in popular media encourage teens to drink more. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than...
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