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School lunches are under fire for being unhealthy, and experts are calling for a total menu makeover.When it comes to your school lunches, are you biting off more than you can chew? According to the...

The debate is heating up about online bullying and how much involvement educators should have in mediating these issues among students. According to this New York Times article, part of the controversy lies in whether...

I was born in a small community just north of Port-au-Prince. I'm fifteen and have three brothers and five sisters. We all go to school--except for the two youngest who aren't old enough. [Editor's note: In Haiti, the majority of...

Hey Rachel, So I am moving.....out of town....out of state, so to a new school. I don't know what to do because I have NEVER been the new girl, ever. It's all going to be...

Hi Rachel, There is a girl that I was best friends ever since kindergarten.... Throughout our friendship I always felt that she would wait for a better offer to come along than me, and if...

Name-calling, social isolation, rumor-spreading--when does bullying go too far? Teen Vogue reports on the mean girl epidemic.Like any new freshman, Katie* knew that the seniors in high school could be intimidating, but she had no...

When I walked into my first dorm room, my heart sank. I was expecting something cute, quaint, and cozy and what I got was cold, corporate, and crummy. It had grey icky carpeting and cinderblock...

Are you suffering from the curse of the  good girl? Rachel Simmons reveals the  high cost of having impossible standards.Eighteen-year-old Becca* seems to have it all: Gorgeous looks, athletic skills, smarts, more friends than she...

What are friends for? More than ever: competition. Eva Chen reports on the rise of rivalry, from school and sports to style. My dream school," declares Kalene, a fifteen-year-old from Maryland, "is the University of...

How about a hug? It's the greeting of the 21st century for teenagers--according to a recent New York Times article--and it doesn't necessarily insinuate romance. Quite the contrary, hugs these days are the new high...

Happy Earth Day! What better way to honor the day than by taking action to help preserve our beautiful planet? America's Greenest Campus, a nationwide contest in which colleges and universities compete to reduce their...

The Wall Street Journal reports today that students are "being asked to check a broader array of free-speech rights at the door." According to the article: "Struggling with racial tensions at his high school,...

The Wall Street Journal reported this morning that college admissions officers have started checking Facebook and MySpace: A new survey of 500 top colleges found that 10% of admissions officers acknowledged looking at social-networking sites...

While you may not be looking forward to setting your alarm to the early hours of dawn again, the new school year at least ushers in something we can all get excited about: back-to-school...

In our August issue, Jane Shin Park reported on the teenage STD epidemic ("Foul Play," page 74), and the article has already provoked impassioned responses from readers, some of whom were grateful for our...