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• Odgers, CL. Joan Ganz Cooney Center. Hey Big Tech, Now is the Perfect Time to Support Our Kids. (March 2021).
• Kobor, MS, Odgers, CL, Schmidt, K & Lai, R. The Conversation. The long-term biological effects of COVID-19 stress on kids’ future health and development. (July 2020).
• Odgers, CL. Child & Family Blog. Social Media Rescues Young People’s Sanity. (June 2020).
• Kobor, MS, Odgers, CL & Schmidt, K. The Province. The hidden costs of COVID-19 for children. (May 2020).
• Odgers, CL. Fortune. It’s Easy to Blame Smartphones for Kid’s Mental Health Issues. But It’s Wrong. (April 2018).
• Odgers, CL. Greater Good Magazine. Are smartphones bad for teens mental health? (June 2018).
• Bailey, D, Duncan, G & Odgers, CL. Washington Post. Preschool can provide a boost, but the gains can fade surprisingly fast. (February 2017).
• Odgers, CL. BOLD. Finally a smarter and science-based approach to kids and screens. (October 2016).
• Odgers, CL. William T. Grant Foundation Blog. Hidden costs of growing up poor in the shadow of wealth. (March 2015).
• Odgers, CL. San Francisco Chronicle. Back to school shopping: pencils, binders – and smartphones? (August 2015).
• The New York Times. ‘It’s Life or Death’: The Mental Health Crisis Among U.S. Teens. (April 2022)
• Tech & Learning. Are Phones Good for Students?. (April 2022)
• TVO Screen Time. The Influencer Generation. (March 2022).
• Wall Street Journal. The Metaverse’s Effects on Mental Health: Trivial or Troubling?. (January 2022).
• The Hill. Senators to grill Instagram chief over platform’s effect on children. (December 2021). 
• NPR. Facebook’s own data is not as conclusive as you think about teens and mental health. (October 2021).
• ABC-The Denver Channel. Is social media the main issue affecting our children’s mental health?. (October 2021).
• Tech & Learning. 5 edtech research trends & needs for the future. (September 2021).
• Vox. The pandemic is raising concerns about how teens use technology. But there’s still a lot we don’t know. (July 2020).
• CNN. Screen time and kids: Parents need to worry less about hours logged. (July 2020).
• Nature. Teenagers’ health is linked to how they view their families. (January 2020).
• The New York Times. Panicking about your Kids’ Phones?: New Research Says Don’t. (January 2020).
• Scientific American. Podcast: Kids Are Not Hurt by Screen Time. (September 2019).
• WIRED. Optimize Algorithms to Support Kids Online, Not Exploit Them. (April 2019)
• Scientific American. The Kids (Who Use Tech) Seem to be Alright. (January 2019).
• WIRED. We’ve Got the Screen Time Debate All Wrong: Let’s Fix It. (December 2018). 
• CARTA. Tool Use, Digital Technology and the Development of the Human Mind. (November 2018). 
• Neiman Lab, Harvard. Can we keep media literacy form becoming a partisan concept like fact checking? (February 2018).
• BOLD. Blaming smartphones but missing the point. (February 2018).
• TIME. We need to talk about kids and smartphones. (October 2017). 
• NBC Nightly News. The link between smartphones and kids’ mental health. (December 2017).
• US News and World Report. Are smart phones helping or harming kids mental health? (May 2017). 
• GUARDIAN. Screen time guidelines need to be built on evidence, not hype. (January 2017). Citing George & Odgers, 2015, review as basis for calls for more research.
• Scientific American. Scientists take a fresh look at how densely populated cities affect mental health. (May 2017). 
• Education Week. Studies explore reasons for ‘fade-out’ effect. (January 2016).
• Scientific American. Does city life pose a risk to mental health? (May 2016). 
• Washington Post. The surprising costs of growing up in the shadow of wealth. (January 2015).
• The Economist. The paradox of the ghetto. (January 2015).
• The Conversation. Poor doors highlight social costs of growing up in the shadow of wealth. (April 2015).
• Wall Street Journal. No, Your children aren’t becoming digital zombies. (October 2015).

USA Today. Families, teachers navigate evolving technology. (September 2013).