Free links to over 75 pieces about young people that have appeared across sections of NYTimes.com since September.
Welcome to a mammoth edition of our Teenagers in The Times feature.
To help students participating in our One-Pager Challenge, which runs from Dec. 6 to Jan. 10, we have collected news, Opinion essays, feature stories, videos, photo essays and podcasts about young people that have appeared across sections of NYTimes.com this fall. (And we will continue to update the collection throughout the contest.)
Though the challenge allows students to choose anything The Times published in 2023, we hope that a selection of pieces all about young people will be an engaging place to start.
And don’t forget: Everything published on The Learning Network, and all links to related Times content, is free as long as you access it from our site.
If you’re not participating in our challenge, we have lots of other ideas for how this collection might be used. (In fact, we’ve been curating compilations like this for so long that our related lesson plan and special activity sheet are both from the pre-2017 version of our site.)
Enjoy scrolling, and when you’re ready to create, we have some tips to help.
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Education
Articles About K-12 Education
High School Stories: Recent New York Times Reporting on Secondary Schooling
A collection of free 2023 links to help those participating in our multimedia challenge, “What High School Is Like in 2023.” Use it to find stories published earlier than those we’ve collected below.
Schools Are Not Ready for Climate Change
A storm can last a day. But the disruption to learning can last years. As natural disasters become more common, school districts are grappling with how to adapt.
This Florida School District Banned Cellphones. Here’s What Happened.
Schools in Orlando took a tougher approach than a new state law required. Student engagement increased. So did the hunt for contraband phones.
School Cellphone Bans Are Trending. Do They Work?
Proponents say no-phone rules reduce student distractions and bullying. Critics say the bans could hinder student self-direction and critical thinking.
Who Runs the Best U.S. Schools? It May Be the Defense Department.
Schools for children of military members achieve results rarely seen in public education.
ACT Reports Record Low Scores as Admissions Landscape Shifts
For the high school class of 2023, the average score was the lowest since 1991, and 43 percent of students did not meet any of the subject-matter benchmarks.
Students Are Missing School at an Alarming Rate
The academic achievement of millions of American students faltered during the pandemic — and in many cases, has not recovered three years later.
Florida Schools Try to Adapt to New Rules on Gender, Bathrooms and Pronouns
As schools start, it’s been more paperwork, a culling of reading lists, as well as new regulations about bathrooms.
Black Student Suspended Over Hair Length Is Sent to Disciplinary School
Darryl George, 18, had previously been suspended by Barbers Hill High School in Texas because officials said the length of his locs violated the district’s dress code.
In Texas, a Fight Over Gender and School Theater Takes an Unexpected Turn
After a high school production of “Oklahoma!” was halted in conservative Sherman, Texas, something unusual happened: The school board sided with transgender students.
The Instagram Account That Shattered a California High School
It had barely a dozen followers, but the discovery of its racist posts turned a Bay Area community against itself — and changed students’ lives forever.
The Shortage in School Bus Drivers Is Getting Worse
Looking for an alternative, the school district in Louisville, Ky., turned to a software program — leading to chaos. It’s one of many districts struggling to get students to class.
By the Numbers: How Schools Struggled During the Pandemic
New federal data from the 2020-2021 school year shows the reach of online learning, the struggle to hire teachers and the lack of counselors.
Opinion | The Startling Evidence on Learning Loss Is In
“The effects of the pandemic on children are persistent and require urgent attention.”
Opinion | The SATs Will Be Different Next Year, and That Could Be a Game-Changer
“Exams that test speed favor the fastest sprinters, but life is a marathon.”
Opinion | If Everyone Gets an A, No One Gets an A
“Grade inflation acts just like real inflation.”
Opinion | The Power of Having the Same Teacher Twice
“When teachers stay with their students longer, they can see beyond the surface and recognize the brilliance beneath.”
Opinion | Too Many Kids Quit Music. Is There a Better Way to Teach it?
“The problem isn’t getting instruments into students’ hands. It’s keeping them there.”
Articles About Higher Education
Allergies and Special Dietary Restrictions Put College Dining Halls to the Test
A surge of students with allergies and special diets is challenging meal services and changing the shape of the campus cafeteria.
Ban or Embrace? Colleges Wrestle With A.I.-Generated Admissions Essays.
A.I. chatbots could facilitate plagiarism on college applications or democratize student access to writing help. Or maybe both.
Affirmative Action Is Over. Should Applicants Still Mention Their Race?
The first high school seniors to apply to college since the Supreme Court’s landmark decision are trying to sort through a morass of conflicting guidance.
‘There Was Definitely a Thumb on the Scale to Get Boys’
Declining male enrollment has led many colleges to adopt an unofficial policy: affirmative action for men.
Americans Are Losing Faith in the Value of College. Whose Fault Is That?
For most people, the new economics of higher ed make going to college a risky bet.
Opinion | The Laws of Campus Culture War
“College can be contentious, but it must be safe and free.”
Opinion | College Students: School Is Not Your Job
”To get the maximum value out of those few golden years, treat them like leisure in the truest sense of the word.”
Opinion | Early College Is the Equalizer We Need
“The two free years of college are a boon to disadvantaged students.”
Politics, History and Civics
In the United States
In This Atlanta Suburb, Teens Taste Freedom at 10 M.P.H.
In Peachtree City, Ga., golf carts are everywhere, giving young people in particular an early chance to take life by the wheel.
Wanted: 20,000 Young Americans to Fight Climate Change
The White House plans to create an “American Climate Corps” that would train thousands of young people for green jobs.
Doc Martens, Bomber Jackets, No Ties: Parsing Gen Z Politicians’ Style
Many of the country’s youngest elected officials hope to express authenticity through their clothing choices.
Podcast | ‘Get a Job, Get Married, Have Kids’: A Debate Over Youth Politics
An argument over kids today and their formative political experiences.
Young People Left in Limbo as Battle Over Transgender Care Shifts to Court
After losing in statehouses, supporters of transgender rights filed lawsuits in at least 14 states to convince judges that transition care for minors was safe.
Corporal Punishment in Private Schools Is Outlawed in New York
The measure was proposed in response to a New York Times investigation that revealed widespread use of such punishment in Hasidic Jewish private schools.
In School Board Elections, Parental Rights Movement Is Dealt Setbacks
Culture battles on gender and race did not seem to move many voters.
Photo Essay | The Young Men of the Crick: Unfinished Lives on the Arizona-Utah Border
A tight-knit group of teenage boys and young men navigate life after the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints.
Native American Boarding Schools Took Children’s Culture, and Hundreds Died
New research reveals the vast scope of the Native American boarding school system, which for more than a century removed Native children from their homes and families in an effort to assimilate them. Students at the schools gave up their names, their labor and sometimes their lives.
Opinion | Young Voters Are Frustrated. They’re Staying Engaged ‘Out of Sheer Self-Defense.’
“Younger voters recognize that our political system is broken, and they have little nostalgia about a less broken time.”
Opinion | Americans Under 30 Don’t Trust Religion — or Anything Else
“If you grew up, as I did, during the relatively stable Clinton years, for example, you probably have a very different view of political institutions than someone turning 25 today, whose political consciousness may have been formed during the Trump era.”
Opinion | Millennials and Gen Z Are Tilting Left and Staying There
“It is not hard to explain the persistence of left-leaning beliefs and liberal self-identification among young Americans.”
Opinion | To Find Freedom, Gen Z Women Are Looking Back to Girlhood
“Could a TikTok trend start a political movement?”
Around the World
For China’s Jobless Young People, Hostels Are the Place to Be
Chinese backpacker hostels offering bunk beds for a few dollars a night have become hubs for the anxiety and ambitions of job-seeking youth.
Young People in China Can’t Find Work, and Xi Jinping Has Only One Response
“The Chinese Communist Party knows very well that young, educated and unemployed people concentrated in big cities have the capacity to challenge authority. After all, that is how their own party started,” writes the author of this Opinion essay.
Old World, Young Africa
As the world greys, Africa blooms with youth.
Across Africa, Young Leaders Emerge to Push for Change
Six people, all 35 or younger, talk about what they are doing to shake up politics on the continent, and what inspired them to step up.
One Year in the Infuriating and Humiliating Search for a Job in South Africa
A generation of South Africans, born nearly a decade after the fall of the apartheid regime, expected to have better prospects than their parents and grandparents.
Iranian Teenager Dies Weeks After Mysterious Collapse
The death of Armita Geravand comes after word of her injuries fueled outrage because she was so young and because of previous cases in which women have been brutalized for protesting dress codes.
Opinion | Tibetan Children In China’s Boarding Schools Are Suffering
“China’s vast network of boarding schools in Tibet is separating families and threatening Tibetan culture.”
Young People and War
Palestinian and Israeli Teens Swam in the Same Pool. Then Came Oct. 7.
The teenagers in the Greater Jerusalem swim club made a point of not focusing on their differences. That changed with the war.
An Audio Diary of Despair
In a series of voice memos sent via WhatsApp, Tasneem Ismael Ahel, 19, described the war unfolding around her in Gaza City.
‘I Was Very Alone Today’: Young Jewish Americans Grieve Over Israel
In the aftermath of the attack by Hamas, they spoke of fear, shock, solidarity and helplessness.
Video | The Dreams of Gaza’s Kids, and the Nightmare They Are Living
Two years ago, filmmakers asked children in Gaza, where nearly half the population is under 18, a seemingly simple question: What is your dream? This video, from the Opinion section, reveals their answers.
Video | Israeli Teen Hopes Her Cousins Will Be Released Soon by Hamas
Sheffa Phillips-Bahat has two young cousins who were taken hostage from their home at Kibbutz Nir Oz. More than a month after they were kidnapped, she “can’t think of anything but getting the hostages back.”
Public Schools Struggle to Say the Right Thing About the Israel-Hamas War
Across the country, public schools, like colleges and universities, are facing backlash as they try to respond to the Hamas attacks and war in Gaza.
After Antisemitic Attacks, Colleges Debate What Kind of Speech Is Out of Bounds
Pro-Palestinian students say that they are speaking up for an oppressed people, but critics say that their rhetoric is deeply offensive.
Opinion | What Is Happening on College Campuses Is Not Free Speech
“Since the Hamas terrorist attacks on Oct. 7, campus life in the United States has imploded into a daily trial of intimidation and insult for Jewish students.”
Opinion | A Dispatch From the Muslim Girl Scouts of Astoria
“Since the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas, in which an estimated 1,400 Israelis were killed and some 200 others were kidnapped, Amira, who is Palestinian American, said she has experienced for the first time the full fury of Islamophobia and racism that her older relatives and friends have told stories about all her life.”
Photo Essay | What It’s Like to Be Young in Ukraine Now
The war hangs like a shadow over young people’s homes and their work, their relationships and their passions.
Video | What Is War to a Grieving Child?
Every day, Ukrainian children lose their fathers in Putin’s war. A grief camp is fighting to protect their youth.
A New Report Documents How Easily Children Can Access Graphic Images of the War
On Instagram, Snapchat and Tiktok, researchers were able to find graphic posts, even with the apps’ sensitivity features turned on.
Economics, Sports and Business
Girls Thrive in Many Sports. Now They’re Coming for Football, Too.
Last year, New York became one of eight states across the country that offer girls’ varsity flag football. The sport’s popularity has only grown.
C.T.E. Study Finds That Young Football Players Are Getting the Disease
They started playing football as kids, began to suffer mentally and died before 30. Researchers found they had C.T.E., the brain disease linked to hits to the head. If their families could go back, would they still let them play?
How Your Child’s School Bus Might Prevent Blackouts
When not driving around, electric buses and other vehicles could help utilities by storing their solar and wind energy and releasing it to meet surges in demand.
Hawaii Settles Sex Discrimination Case With High School Female Athletes
The landmark class-action case was one of the farthest-reaching challenges to high school sports under federal Title IX protections.
Gen Z Is Poised to Spend More on Debt Than Others. It Could Derail Retirement.
Young adults are struggling to keep up their credit scores and paying an increasing amount of disposable income servicing their debts.
Opinion | To Prepare Kids for the Future, Bring Back Shop and Home Ec
“Students learn from physical as well as mental work. Plus, they need a break.”
Science, Health and Technology
‘Being 13’: What It’s Like to Be a 13-Year-Old Girl Today
Three girls, one year. This is what it’s like to be 13 today, in a world that can’t stop talking about the dire state of your future.
How to Use Social Media, According to Teen Girls
Parents and public health experts have a lot to say about what adolescent girls do on their phones. We asked teens to weigh in.
How Social Media Does (And Does Not) Impact Teen Brain Development
Despite the headlines, the impact of social apps on adolescent mental health isn’t so clear.
New Laws on Kids and Social Media Are Stymied by Industry Lawsuits
Federal judges in three states have blocked children’s privacy and parental oversight laws, saying they very likely violate free speech rights.
At Meta, Millions of Underage Users Were an ‘Open Secret,’ States Say
Meta “routinely documented” children under 13 on Instagram and collected their data, according to a newly unsealed complaint.
Podcast | ‘Modern Love’: Did I Fail as a Parent?
Rick Reiss couldn’t control his troubled teenage son, so he had him taken away. Years later, he and his son re-examine that decision.
Teen Depression Rose During Pandemic, With Racial Gaps in Treatment
Approximately 20 percent of teenagers had major depressive disorder in 2021, but less than half who needed treatment received it, a new study found.
Helping Anxious Kids Might Be Easy
The author of this Opinion essay asks, “Overprotection may be making kids scared of the world. If so, wouldn’t the obvious solution be more independence?”
Harvard Cozies Up to #MentalHealth TikTok
As young Americans turn to TikTok for information on mental health, the T.H. Chan School of Public Health at Harvard is building its own team of influencers.
How to Talk to Your Teen When They Start to Tune You Out
Meaningful conversations are possible, but you might have to change your approach, experts say.
Teenage Vaping Declines This Year, Survey Says
The annual tobacco use survey given to middle and high school students revealed a decrease among older teenagers for the first time in several years.
The Look of Vapes Has Changed. Here’s Why the Shift Has Experts Worried.
In candy shades and eggy shapes, many of today’s most popular vaping devices look like toys. Experts worry they will hook a new generation of users.
Bariatric Surgery at 16
If childhood obesity is an ‘epidemic,’ how far should doctors go to treat it?
Unvaccinated and Vulnerable: Children Drive Surge in Deadly Outbreaks
About 60 million “zero-dose children” have not received any vaccines and have aged out of routine immunization programs. Protecting them will require a costly vaccination blitz.
Opinion | This Is Not the Way to Help Depressed Teenagers
“Large-scale, ‘light touch’ interventions have backfired.”
Opinion | The Trap of the Overprotected Childhood
”I wish my kids had the open-ended, play-filled days I had growing up.”
Opinion | The Troubled Teen Industry Offers Trauma, Not Therapy
“Tough regulation is needed to combat abusive practices.”
Opinion | Ban Online Porn for Kids
“A Supreme Court ruling from the early days of the internet is woefully out of date.”
Opinion | Anxiety in the Age of Barbie
“Young women in crisis are wondering, “What was I made for?”
Arts, Entertainment, Style and Culture
Can You Understand Gen Alpha’s Slang?
Are you a “sigma”? Do you have “rizz”? The youngest generation is bamboozling its elders with terms all their own.
Photo Essay | The Literary Lives of New York City’s Youth
Archival photos of children’s reading rooms at the New York Public Library over the years.
Child Influencers Make Big Money. Who Gets It?
Some of the most popular influencers can amass small fortunes before they’re 18, but there are few legal protections to ensure their earnings remain their own.
Goodbye, Feminist Blogs. Hello, Gen Z Content Creators?
Young women are more feminist than ever, as are big brands and Hollywood franchises. But what happened to the online community blogs and zines once offered?
What Is ‘Looksmaxxing’?
“Looksmaxxers” are a booming online community creating new terms for age-old insecurities.
Who Are You Calling ‘Delulu’?
How a shorthand for delusion became popular among Gen Z-ers and young millennials.
Video | Oasis: Growing Up and Growing Apart
At the dawn of their teenage years, the bond between the twins Raphaël and Rémi begins to weaken. But during the summer, time seems to stand still.
A Parkland Father Stages the Unthinkable: Losing a Son in a School Shooting
Manuel Oliver has a one-man show about the life and death of his son, Joaquin, who was killed in the 2018 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla.
Burned by Ticketmaster, Taylor Swift Fans Head to the Movies
High ticket prices and a disastrous presale kept many fans from seeing the Eras Tour in person.
‘We Taylor-gated’: Taylor Swift Fans Descend on a Jets Game
Football fans mingled with Swifties, on public transit, in the parking lot and at the game. Everyone was dressed for the occasion.
Olivia Rodrigo’s ‘Guts’ Is Her Second No. 1 Album
The 20-year-old singer-songwriter’s follow-up to her 2021 debut, “Sour,” has the fourth-biggest opening of any LP this year so far.
Review | ‘Lift’: The Choreography of Mentoring Young Talents
In this documentary, ballet has life-changing power for three New York dancers whose toughest struggles are not matters of technique.
Review | ‘Reservation Dogs’ Was a Coming-of-All-Ages Masterpiece
In the ending of the FX comedy-drama, preserving the bonds among generations is a radical, magical act.
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