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Smartphones and social media cause mental health and behavior problems.

Colleges are trying everything from negotiation to mass arrests to deal with the crop of pro-Palestinian demonstrations that have sprung up on their grounds, but experts say they have to take a good look at campus culture if they really want to deal with the situation in the long term. Elite schools starting with Columbia…

Yes, it is possible to rethink grading and testing and still hold students accountable. Remember the old quip “The easiest way to turn C students into A students is to admit them to graduate school”? In most of doctoral programs I am familiar with, grades range from A to B, with a B tantamount to an undergraduate D. 

With two recent advisory warnings, the U.S. surgeon general issued a powerful one-two jolt to the nation’s consciousness about the severity of the adolescent mental health crisis and the role social media may be playing in it. The warnings are peppered with sobering statistics that illuminate the depth of this emergency. They show, for example, […]

An estimated 16 million students nationwide missed a substantial chunk of the last school year. Experts say there's no one solution to getting them back into the classroom consistently.