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Should Joining Social Media Be Treated Like Getting A Driver’s License?

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By Nimah Gobir Verified
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Home / Adolescence / MindShift Oct 22, 2025 Updated 3:19 pm PT Save Article Failed to save article Please try again Email (Mariia Vitkovska/ iStock) In 2017, psychologist and researcher Jean Twenge published iGen, a book about the first generation to grow up with smartphones. An excerpt in The Atlantic ran under the headline, “Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?” which drew some backlash for sounding alarmist.
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Teaching Civics in a Divided Age? Intergenerational Dialogue Should Go Both Ways

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By Nimah Gobir Verified
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Research shows intergenerational programs can improve students’ empathy, literacy and civic engagement, but developing those relationships outside of the home are hard to come by. Ivy Mitchell has spent two decades helping students understand how government works. “We are the most age segregated society,” said Mitchell.
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Teaching Civics in a Divided Age? Intergenerational Dialogue Should Go Both Ways

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| Flipboard
High school seniors had the worst reading scores since 1992 on a national test, a loss probably related to increases in screen time and the pandemic. Their math scores fell as well. The reading skills of American high school seniors are the worst they have been in three decades, according to new …
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