“You only learn half the things you need to know in the classroom.” When I first heard that saying, I brushed it off as something adults said to make school sound deeper than it really was. But now, a ...

A lesson for life that Bob Loyd and Jerry Schertzer taught us in wood-shop class: Everything goes back to its place (“I Came, I Sawed, I Conquered” by Mark Naida, op-ed, April 13). Members of our ...

Remember high school? Your friends, your music, your style? What lessons from high school classes do you still use today? If you could go back, what do you wish you’d learned about real life? Research ...

Growing up a latchkey kid meant learning to handle quite a lot of things on your own. Gen X was born between 1965 and 1980, which means this year they'll be turning 45 to 60 years old. As a smaller ...

Concerned that they're not prepared for the real world, Gen Z is turning to "adulting" classes for a crash course in basic life skills – learning everything from budgeting to changing tires and doing ...

As a 36-year-old, this is the advice I wish I could've given my younger self. I started writing my blog when I was a few months shy of 18 years old. Since I’m now twice as old as I was when I started, ...

OPB has premiered a new documentary that follows a group of Oregon students as they navigate the challenges of high school and anticipate the looming difficulties of life beyond school. “Class of 2025 ...