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2024 – “Professors say students are coming into college with a host of new and alarming learning challenges, including fragmented and distracted thinking, along with sharper limits on what they are willing or able to do.”
Sophia Sarafova, an associate professor of biology at Davidson College, notes that at the start of her teaching career, 18 years ago, new students were able to synthesize and summarize information from multiple lectures on…
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2026 – Citing middle-school level skills, UC faculty want to restore math, science testing for applicants
The letter cites a November report from UC San Diego’s Senate-Administration Workgroup on Admissions, which concluded that the number of students whose mathematical abilities were below the typical high school level had increased thirty-fold in…
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2025 – A link between problematic social media use and mental health in Greece: Sex and generation differences
Our findings revealed a positive correlation between problematic social media use and anxiety, which was unaffected by sex or generation. Additionally, a positive link was found between problematic social media use and depression, with a…
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2026 – The World Happiness Report, published by the Wellbeing Research Centre at the University of Oxford, found that excessive use of social media negatively impacts personal wellbeing.
“If you use social media for an hour a day, that’s great, you’re being connected,” says Michael Plant, Research Fellow at the Wellbeing Research Centre. “But the report did show a correlation between, the more…
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2021 – Social media damages teenagers’ mental health, report says
Heavy social media use was linked to negative wellbeing and self-esteem, regardless of a young person’s mental state, with more girls experiencing feelings of depression and hopelessness. One in three girls was unhappy with their…
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2025 – Three in four teens have used AI companions, and half use them regularly.
A third of teens have chosen AI companions over humans for serious conversations, and a quarter have shared personal information with these platforms. One third of teens surveyed say they have discussed serious matters with…