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Recognizing the Signs of Depression in Teens and How You Can Help Teenagers face a host of pressures, from the changes of puberty to questions about who they are and where they fit in. With

Curfews, sports, and understanding kids’ brain chemistry have all helped dramatically curb substance abuse in the country. It’s a little before 3 p.m. on a sunny Friday afternoon and Laugardalur Park, near central Reykjavik, looks

I am what is often referred to as a “high-achieving dyslectic.” From a very early age, I was made aware that my mind simply worked differently than other people’s. Fortunately, while in elementary school, I

A math teacher described a problem he was having with his 2nd graders: “One of the goals of our math curriculum is to enable the students to articulate their mathematical reasoning. We would like them

I am a high school student in Charles City, Iowa. In our writing class, we are researching   topics  that we believe are large issues in the world today.  I chose to research teenage car crashes.

I am a high school student in Burleson, Texas, and would like to inform you of an issue I find very pressing in today’s society and education. As you know, education is a key factor

We are high school sophomores in Lafayette, Indiana.  We would like to make parents  across America aware of the negative factors of the technology  age. We feel the majority of parents are not well informed 

Given the multitude of phony news stories spawned during the 2016 election, culminating in the shooting at a D.C. pizza restaurant, the Stanford History Education Group’s study of adolescents’ ability to judge the credibility of

I love ice hockey.  It killed me, is killing me.  My brain, like the surface of the moon, cratered from years of collisions with the boards, sticks, elbows, ice.  Isolated, distant, circling the inhabited world,