Teen Mental Health

Meta adds school-only Stories, notes and club features to Instagram partnership program

Meta has expanded its Instagram School Partnership Program, adding tools that let verified students and staff post Stories and notes visible only to their own school. The update also introduces admin-only channels for parent and student updates, school-wide clubs and teams, and a student directory limited to peers and mutual teen followers.

9to5mac.com · 2026-09-29

New book challenges Jonathan Haidt's phone-driven theory of teen anxiety

Psychologist Peter Gray's Restoring Childhood disputes The Anxious Generation's central claim that smartphones and social media caused the post-2010 teen mental health crisis. Gray instead traces the decline to decades of shrinking childhood autonomy and rigid, test-focused schooling tied to Common Core, arguing home internet access in the 1990s and 2000s actually improved teen wellbeing by restoring lost freedom and social connection.

theverge.com · 2026-09-15