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  • TikTok video on phoneHealth

    Pre-teen girls using beauty products from social media can cause premature aging and permanent scars

    By Jocelyn Gecker and The Associated Press
  • school kids meditating in classFeatures

    Millions of kids are skipping school. Could the answer be recess — or giving them cash?

    By Jocelyn Gecker, Bianca Vázquez Toness, and others
  • Young group of people standing in circle using mobile phones outsideTech

    It’s tough to be a teen without social media. Here’s how families are navigating the experience of adolescence offline

    By Jocelyn Gecker and The Associated Press
  • College protestsSuccess

    Many campus protestors shocked arrests may be on their record forever: ‘The level of punishment is not even just draconian, it feels like over-the-top callousness’

    By Jocelyn Gecker and The Associated Press
  • Notes from students expressing support and sharing coping strategies paper a wall, as members of the Miami Arts Studio mental health club raise awareness on World Mental Health Day, Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2023, at Miami Arts Studio, a public 6th-12th grade magnet school, in Miami. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)Tech

    Online therapy providers see booming business from public schools lacking counselors: ‘This is how we can prevent people from falling through the cracks’

    By Jocelyn Gecker and The Associated Press
  • FILE – Palestinian supporters chant as they march during a protest at Columbia University, Thursday, Oct. 12, 2023, in New York. As the death toll rises in the Israel-Hamas war, American colleges have become seats of anguish with many Jewish students calling for strong condemnation after civilian attacks by Hamas while some Muslim students are pressing for recognition of decades of suffering by Palestinians in Gaza. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura, File)Leadership

    Israel-Hamas war poses ‘incredibly difficult free speech moment’ on U.S. campuses—and staying neutral isn’t easy

    By Jocelyn Gecker, Chrissie Thompson, and others
  • Teacher, studentSuccess

    College professors are in ‘full-on crisis mode’ as they catch one ‘ChatGPT plagiarist’ after another

    By Jocelyn Gecker and The Associated Press
  • Gen Z coupleLife

    From ‘sneaky links’ to ‘situationships,’ here’s how Gen Z is redefining sex

    By Jocelyn Gecker and The Associated Press
  • Ron DeSantis, governor of Florida, speaks during a Freedom Blueprint event in Des Moines, Iowa, US, on Friday, March 10, 2023. DeSantis will meet with Iowa Republican legislators in Des Moines on Friday amid rising expectations that he will run for president in 2024, according to people familiar with the matter. Photographer: Kathryn Gamble/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesPolitics

    College targeted in the war on ‘woke’ is stunned by its infamy: ‘This isn’t a factory that pumps out, you know, non-binary communists’

    By Jocelyn Gecker and The Associated Press
  • LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – MARCH 21: Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) workers and supporters rally on the first day of a three-day strike on March 21, 2023 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Qian Weizhong/VCG via Getty Images)Success

    ‘People are so frustrated’: Striking Los Angeles school support staff earn a paltry $25,000 on average

    By Jocelyn Gecker and Collin Binkley
  • StudentSuccess

    ‘It’s coming, whether we want it to or not’: Teachers nationwide are using ChatGPT to prepare kids for an AI world

    By Jocelyn Gecker and The Associated Press
  • The logo for OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, appears on a mobile phone, in New York, Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2023.Tech

    ChatGPT just created a new tool to catch students trying to cheat using ChatGPT

    By Matt O'Brien, Jocelyn Gecker, and others
  • Chef Josh Gjersand prepares a sandwich for Mount Diablo High School students to try during a taste testFinance

    The hottest new restaurant in town might be in the school cafeteria — but only for a few lucky districts that can afford it

    By Jocelyn Gecker and The Associated Press
  • FILE – Los Angeles Unified School District students attend online classes at Boys & Girls Club of Hollywood in Los Angeles, Aug. 26, 2020. “It is very easy with hindsight to say, ‘Oh, learning loss, we should have opened.’ People forget how many people died,” said Austin Beutner, former superintendent in Los Angeles, where students were online until the start of hybrid instruction in April 2021. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)Health

    Zoom school set kids back during COVID-19 and now many parents are questioning why they weren’t sent back sooner

    By Bianca Vázquez Toness, Jocelyn Gecker, and others
  • Marina Aina, a 21-year-old student majoring in American Studies at Pomona College, poses for photos on the school’s campus in Claremont, Calif., Thursday, Sept. 22, 2022. Aina was used to getting paid for her internships and could not see taking an unpaid opportunity over a summer job. “If I felt that it wasn’t compensated then I wouldn’t go for it because I wouldn’t have the funds to cover it,” Aina says. “I wouldn’t want to ask my parents, who are helping me pay for college, to pay for something I’m doing over the summer.” (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)Success

    Gen Z is pushing to end unpaid internships: “‘We really need to retire this attitude of ‘It was hard for me so it’s going to be hard for you.’”

    By Naomi Harris, Jocelyn Gecker, and others