Free the Anxious Generation Movement: A Call for K-12 School Leaders

This edWeb podcast is sponsored by Penguin Random House Education and Penguin Press. The webinar recording can be accessed here. Adolescents are in a mental health crisis. Major depressive episodes among American teens have more than doubled since 2010 as their social lives moved onto smartphones loaded with social media apps. The only available explanation for why this happened in many countries at the same time is that the ancient “play-based childhood” was replaced by the “phone-based chi...