American Youth

Just-Announced: Top Teens in America Picked for Their Do-Gooder Service

Ilana Donna Arazie | Posted 05.15.2012

Read More: Teenagers, Volunteers, Teens, Teen Service Awards, Prudential Spirit of Community Awards, Community Service Awards, American Youth, Good News News
Ilana Donna Arazie

When do we actually get to celebrate teens in the headlines? Each year the Prudential Spirit of Community Awards awards 100 teens around the country f...

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The New American Young Person: Now With 40% Less Empathy!

Mark Morford | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Youth, The Y Generation, Gen Y, Generation X and Y, Millennials, Generation X, American Youth, Generation Y, Healthy Living News
Mark Morford

Young people of binge-drinking college age are self-centered, insufferable dorkmonkeys with the souls of immature doorknobs. There, I said it. No wait: Actually, science said it.

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Bringing Service Back: Why Obama is Better than Prozac for Today's Adolescents

Leeat Granek, PhD | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Community, Depression, Youth, Anxiety, Service, Barack Obama, Teenagers, Charity, Helping Others, Volunteer Stories Obama, Giving Back to the Community, Volunteering, Giving Back, American Youth, Obama Youth, Donations, Politics News
Leeat Granek, PhD

Barack Obama is bringing service and community back to American youth and this is good for the country and good for kids.

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Aloha, Mr. Hand

Kevin Morris and Glenn Altschuler | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ipod, Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death, Myspace, The Dumbest Generation, E.D. Hirsch, Tweens, Facebook, Robert Lowell, Teenagers, The Digital Age, Internet, Youtube, American Youth, Mark Bauerlein, Democraticization, Allan Bloom, Harry Potter, Google, Media News
Kevin Morris and Glenn Altschuler

For all his reliance on social science research, in The Dumbest Generation Mark Bauerlein doesn't present any evidence to justify his assertion that this generation is the dumbest in American history.

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