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News

Report: Kids check out of school as they get older, and parents are in the dark

Photographed from behind, a young student walking in university.

Health

Kids, screen time and despair: An expert in the economics of happiness echoes psychologists' warnings about tech

Photo illustration of sad muse holding smartphone, showing concept of screen time and despair.

Society

In wealthy, educated communities, evidence emerges of a new form of "white flight"

Ping Zhang holds a sign while demonstrating outside the John Joseph Moakley United States Courthouse on the opening day of Harvard University's affirmative action

Education

Banning smartphones at schools: Research points to higher test scores, less anxiety, more exercise

A conceptual image of a large hand taking a smartphone away from a schoolgirl.