Education

What Motivates Gen Z More: Purpose or Paycheck?

The question gets asked a lot. Studies get cited. Generations get labeled. The paycheck people say Gen Z is soft and entitled and didn’t understand

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Youth Leadership and Activism Trends

Greta Thunberg was 15 when she started skipping school on Fridays to protest outside the Swedish parliament. By 16 she was speaking to the United

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How Extracurriculars Shape Student Identity

Ask most adults what they remember from high school or college, and the answer usually isn’t the curriculum. It’s the team, the club, the show,

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College Campus Culture in 2026

The college campus has always been its own particular world — a temporary community with its own norms, its own social hierarchies, its own version

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The Rise of Alternative Education Paths

The straight line from high school to four-year college used to be the assumed path for a certain kind of student — the academically oriented,

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What Students Actually Want From Teachers Today

Ask a student what makes a class good, and they might mention the subject matter or the activities. But ask them what makes a teacher

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The Debate Over Phones in Classrooms

Here’s what a middle school teacher told me about what changed in her classroom when phones were banned: “The first week was terrible. They were

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School Safety — What’s Improving and What Isn’t

School safety is one of those topics where the distance between the political conversation and the lived experience of the people actually in schools is

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The Role of Faith-Based Groups in Student Communities

Campus ministry probably isn’t the first thing that comes to mind when you think about influential forces in college students’ lives. But on many campuses

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How High School Culture Has Changed in the Past Decade

Ask someone who graduated high school in 2015 what it was like, and ask someone who graduated in 2025, and you’re not talking to the

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