Here's What Teachers Think Their Salaries Should Be

Seven must-read stories about suicide rates, incel slang, Kathleen Hanna, and more. PLUS: Check out a new ad campaign promoting real sex education.

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In this edition:

• On Sex Ed, “Our Side” Is Finally Fighting Back

• How Gen Z Took Over Incel Slang

• Suicide Rates Are Now Higher Among Young Adults Than the Middle-Aged

• Here’s What Teachers Think Their Salaries Should Be

• Schools Were Just Supposed To Block Porn. Instead They Sabotaged Homework and Censored Suicide Prevention Sites

• Porn and the Rise of Rough Teen Sex

• Kathleen Hanna’s Music Says a Lot. There’s More in the Book.

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On Sex Ed, “Our Side” Is Finally Fighting Back (The Nation)

When I covered this movement two years ago, many sex-ed advocates I spoke to lamented that there weren’t many—maybe not any—groups solely devoted to supporting sex ed in schools. But over the last few months, a team of organizers led by the group EducateUS: Changing Sex Ed for Good, building on research by Planned Parenthood, Advocates for Youth, and others, has been developing ways of building support for sex ed from the classroom to school board chambers to local libraries to the ballot box. With support from the Harnisch Foundation and the Equality Federation, the group hired Gutsy Media to develop three 30-second digital ads based on messages they honed through testing. READ MORE

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How Gen Z Took Over Incel Slang (Washington Post)

The internet has transformed how Gen Z communicates. Our language is built on memes and a collective sense of wry existentialism, with our humor often turning dark or potentially dangerous, as it has when borrowing from the online community of men called “involuntary celibates.”