The dominant conversation in youth mental health starts with what’s wrong. But when the conversation is organized around crisis, risk, and pathology, the solutions that follow are built to reduce...
When Australian policymakers began discussing social media age restrictions in 2024, Amanda Third was part of the Australian Child Rights Task Force that co-authored an open letter calling on the...
Racially and economically segregated schools across the United States have hosted many interventions from commercial digital education technology (edtech) companies who promise their products will rectify the failures of public...
Over the past 125 years, since the advent of applications for radio and film strips in schools – and on through television, terminal computers, personal computers, smartboards, tablets, laptops and...
In the U.S., education policy has long tended to focus its aims more on raising student performance levels than on cultivating young people’s personal interests. Yet there is clear evidence...
I am 19-years-old and I have experienced the highs and lows of social media for the entirety of my childhood and into my early adulthood. Social media allows me to...
There’s a tendency in popular discourse about social media and its impact on young people to lump all platforms together and talk about a single entity called “social media.” The...
A new post announcing a major output of this project’s work is available to read here: Announcing a New Resource Site for Race-Grounded Career Advising. The Equitable Futures Innovation Network...
With widespread consumer adoption of generative AI tools such as ChatGPT and Dall-E, public awareness has been growing about potential risks and opportunities for young people’s learning and development. From...
The positive benefits of youth interacting with technology are often ignored while the negatives are emphasized. It’s time for that to change. In a commitment to this effort, the Connected...
