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Happy New Year from The Learning Network!As 2024 ended and 2025 began, we invited teenagers in our writing prompts to reflect on the year that was and look forward to the one ahead. What resolutions and goals did they have for 2025? What good advice had they received that they’d like to apply to their…

Teenagers and educators weigh in on a recent question from The Ethicist.

Students tell us what they have learned from the platonic, familial and romantic relationships in their lives.

We asked teenagers if they were overscheduled, and how it would feel if they were able to slow down and do less.

This week, teenage responses to three recent Picture Prompts.

Can bribes instill a lifelong love of reading? Teens weigh in on a recent guest essay.

Welcome to a new year of Current Events Conversation!

I feel that throughout my school many food ends up getting wasted because of the lack of attention brought to people with regards to healthy eating. Because so many fruits and vegetables get thrown out on the daily at my school, many people are getting fueled on the unhealthy salt and sugar-filled items that are…

Tech inside classrooms has had many positive effects and many negative effects. Without technology, it would take forever to find sources/information and it would also take ages to do complex things. With technology, people can easily find information and they can easily do many things but the big downside is that they can easily just…

Every week in our Picture Prompts, we post at least one image from The New York Times, without a caption, and invite students to try and decode it. What do they think the image is communicating? How does it relate to or comment on society or current events? Can they relate to it personally? What…