Our High School Essay Contest Is Back

A lot of people—mostly boomers—like to say that Gen Z is doomed. (Photo by H. Armstrong Roberts via Getty Images)
What’s Gen Z really like? We want the experts to tell us.
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Last year, we announced the first-ever Free Press essay contest, inviting high schoolers to “tell our readers about a problem facing American society—and, more importantly, how you would fix it.” We were blown away by the response. Over 400 young readers wrote in, and—though it was hard to choose—we published three of the best essays in our pages.
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