Joanne Jacobs
It’s a hot summer job market for youth
Working as a lifeguard was a dangerous job in “Stranger Things.” A red-hot summer job market awaits teenagers, reports Paul Wiseman and...
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Joanne Jacobs
May 5, 20221 min read
‘I’m sending my kids to screen-free schools’
Photo: Natureaddict/Pixabay Auguste Meyrat is sending his children to “screen-free” schools, he writes in The Federalist. As a teacher,...
Joanne Jacobs
Oct 13, 20181 min read
Instagram bullying: ‘Portal of pain’ for teens
Fifty-nine percent of teens say they’ve been bullied online, reports Pew. In a 2017 survey by Ditch the Label, an anti-bullying group,...
Joanne Jacobs
Aug 21, 20182 min read
For teens, texting crowds out books, TV
For today’s teens, “time on digital media has displaced time once spent enjoying a book or watching TV,” concludes Jean Twenge, author of...
Joanne Jacobs
Jul 13, 20181 min read
Summer jobs aren’t for teens any more
Immigrant adults are taking summer jobs once done by U.S. teenagers, writes Paul Bedard in the Washington Examiner. “Immigrants — legal...
Joanne Jacobs
Jun 16, 20181 min read
Not so smart no more
IQ scores are falling, at least for Norwegian men, writes Scottie Andrew in Newsweek. For most of the 20th century, IQ scores have risen...
Joanne Jacobs
Jun 11, 20182 min read
Why are kids killing themselves?
The number of teens “hospitalized for thinking about or attempting suicide doubled in less than a decade,” according to a recent study....
Joanne Jacobs
Jun 7, 20181 min read
45% of teens are online nearly all the time
Forty-five percent of teens say they’re online nearly all the time, reports Pew Research Center. Ninety-five percent own or have access...
Joanne Jacobs
Dec 3, 20171 min read
Iceland’s clean teens
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....
Joanne Jacobs
Nov 3, 20171 min read
Sleepy teens
Teens aren’t getting enough sleep, concludes an analysis by Jean Twenge, a San Diego State psychology professor. In two surveys, 40...
Joanne Jacobs
Oct 16, 20172 min read
Anxiety is way up for teens: Why?
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...
Joanne Jacobs
Aug 26, 20171 min read
Sleepy teens: High schools start too early
More than four in five high schools start the day earlier than sleep researchers recommend, reports Sarah D. Sparks in Education Week....
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