Alarming new data shows U.S. students continue to fall behind their peers in reading as the country's achievement gap widens, according to results from the latest globally recognized international exam. read more
The operating company that runs the Paris landmark said a Hindu religious delegation had requested that interactions with women' be limited during its visit. The Eiffel Tower has reopened after staff walked out over the removal of women staff during a weekend visit by a Hindu religious delegation. The operating company that runs the Paris landmark, SETE, acknowledged that the group had requested the Saturday visit be organised to limit "interactions with women" and said "these conditions should not have been accepted." read more
The victim of a random and senseless act of violence in Times Square on Aug. 31 is being remembered as a "thoughtful daughter and sister, a loyal friend, a devoted partner and companion in every aspect of [her husband] Frank's life, and, most recently, an incredibly loving mother to Madison." Erin Piacenti, 32, was returning to work for the first time since giving birth to her 5-month-old daughter Madison on Aug. 31 when she was fatally stabbed by Pamela Cisneros, 49, as she headed home from her job at Bank of America (BoA). Now, a GoFundMe has been created to help raise funds for her 5-month-old daughter. read more
A mom of five was convicted last week of delinquency of a minor. Her offense: allowing her 5-year-old son to walk about a half-mile by himself in their gated community. Until very recently, Karyann Parkinson lived in leafy Williamsburg, Virginia. She and her husband, Dallin, moved there from Utah so Parkinson could attend William and Mary Law School. In June, when Parkinson was preparing for the bar"and also happened to be eight months pregnant with her fifth child"she and her then-youngest, Sam, went for a bike ride, as they often do. They stopped for her son's favorite activity: collecting goose feathers from the path near their community pond. When they got home, he asked if he could walk back and get some more. read more
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Doesn't explain why the US dropped so far, as screen time hasn't decreased or increased.
Worldwide, the average person spends a total of 6 hours and 37 minutes looking at a screen each day (for internet-connected activities). The average American spends 7 hours looking at a screen each day. According to data from DataReportal, the average American spends 6 hours and 59 minutes looking at a screen every day.
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Are teenagers growing dimmer?
Every three years the oecd, a club mostly of rich countries, releases the results of international school tests sat by 15-year-olds all across the world. There were reasons to hope that the latest data, published on September 8th, would bring positive news. Marks in mathematics, reading and science had collapsed in the previous round of testing, which was carried out just after the pandemic.
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Screen time isn't the issue, you'd be a fool to propaganda to think its just screen time. The point of saying "screen time" is to put fear in people about computers, phones and its utility.
It's what they are doing with their screen time, over time they are doing less and less structured thinking.
A Short video, notifications, algorithmic feeds, constant task-switching, reduced long-form reading, less boredom, less unstructured thought.
It doesn't have to be this way its not screen time, but the apps they use.
Does it even matter?
In Oakland, California public-sector union workers illegally covered up the former mayor filing for office late by deleting footage and faking timestamps so that she would not be eliminated from the election.
I mean does it matter really? America is in such a spiral of grift and graft, does any of this even matter?