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As Youth Mental Health Crisis Rages, Michigan Schools Work To Bolster Students’ Sense of Connection

As the Covid-19 pandemic brought shutdowns and quarantines, making students’ lives less stable and connected, it intensified a long-festering youth mental health crisis and left schools searching for answers.

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68 Best John Green Quotes On Hope & Life

John Green is a bestselling author, podcaster, avid soccer fan, and popular YouTube creator. In 2014, he was named one of TIME Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in the World.

Meet the Black Literary Society Helping High Schoolers Fall in Love With Books

A California school teacher wanted to create a summer reading program for Black students. It turned into an affirming space connecting students around the state.

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Advocates Are Using Soap Operas To Teach (Without Preaching)

Advocates are inserting storylines into TV and radio shows to promote behaviors that could lead to social change. Just don’t call it infotainment.

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7 Positive Good News Stories From Canada

The official Good Good Good roundup of positive good news stories from Canada — continually being updated.

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19 Things You Can Do To Stop Gun Violence

There are so many things we can each do to prevent gun violence, school shootings, suicide, and more. We’ve compiled a list of resources for you to get started...

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Potato Farmers Conquer a Devastating Worm... with Banana Paper

Biodegradable banana “paper” can protect potato seeds from potato cyst nematodes, sharply increasing potato size and yields, research finds.

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Young Advocates Take the Lead To Curb Campus Suicide

Suicide is now the second leading cause of death on college campuses. Peer support, trainings and suicide prevention programs aim to reverse this deadly trend.

5 Good News Stories About Happiness

Happiness serves as a revolutionary means to survival, but it is also an indicator that a country, group, or region is doing good in the world. These five stories will help shed some light onto happiness research across the globe.

11 Ways to Safely Reduce Abortions Without Removing Access

There’s no evidence that banning abortion reduces the number of abortions. There are, however, a few data-backed, safe, and effective ways to reduce the number of abortions.

Eco-friendly Eid: The Indonesian Women On A Mission To Plant Trees

Muslim women's group 'Aisyiyah is helping the environment and local communities by restoring forests, tackling climate problems and raising awareness on the need to reduce waste

More Than a Warm Body': Schools Try Long-Term Solutions To Substitute Teacher Shortage

Long before Covid forced states to take desperate measures to find substitutes, schools often struggled to cover teacher absences. Now, school districts want more than quick fixes.