Coming of age in the pandemic has been rough on a generation of teens. Many forces converged with normal developmental processes to create a perfect psychological storm: pre-existing mental health ...

Bruce St. James and Pamela Hughes discuss the troubles students in Arizona have with reading. Despite school officials claiming they made 12 separate abuse and neglect reports, DCS records show only ...

Huffington is the founder and CEO of Thrive Global. The beginning of a new year is a great time to imagine new possibilities, both for ourselves and for the world. And this year, as Sam Altman put it ...

Dear Amy: My wife is a doctor who, at the beginning of the pandemic, needed to be extremely cautious about her exposure to Covid. We asked our adult daughter, “Sarah,” to limit the circle of people ...

New research rolls out weekly, describing the impact of the pandemic on the educational and emotional lives of children. First, the World Health Organization predicted a wave of mental health concerns ...

Thirteen year-old Alita told me she knew there was something wrong with her—something that made her “less than.” She felt that, somehow, she was “marked” and deeply unacceptable—even ugly—inside. She ...

Excel Academy East Boston, where the author taught English Language Learners and administered the ACCESS Test from 2020 to 2022 (photo via Google Maps.) Daniela is an energetic and chatty 13-year-old ...

The Supreme Court's ruling in City of Grants Pass, Oregon v. Johnson calls fresh attention to the nation's homelessness crisis. In its decision, released last week, the Court ruled that local ...

Here in my adopted city of Vancouver, people are still reeling from the recent killing of 11 people by a man who intentionally drove his SUV into a crowded Filipino street festival. Among the victims ...

DEAR ABBY: A co-worker and I have developed a mutual friendship with a co-worker who lives in a different town. Related Articles Dear Abby: They say my new boyfriend would be such a good dad, but I’m ...

The whole world has watched in horror as massive fires rage out of control in southern California. While the Santa Ana winds are dying down and firefighters are beginning to turn the tide, the ...