When I was a kid, this photo would be on the cover of Time, the Wheaties box, next years Trapper Keeper, lunchboxes, and the bedroom wall of teenagers all over America.

We’ve known this for decades yet there is an overwhelming refusal to put more recess or physical fitness into the school day.

Lyman arrives, bearing bad news for those who argue parenting (in this culture) can be easy. More authoritative parents have better relationships w/ their teens today. But they also feel like it's hard to be authoritative in this culture. Dovetails w/Jonathan T. Rothwell The Brookings Institution.

Also, how many babies looked up at parents wearing masks?

Me, too.

The problem is not people being uneducated. The problem is that people are educated just enough to believe what they have been taught, and not educated enough to question anything from what they have been taught. —Professor Richard Feynman

“If an experiment in private enterprise is unsuccessful, people lose money and they have to close it down. If an experiment in government is unsuccessful, it is always expanded.” — Milton Friedman

The Slant on Teaching Cursive Fails to Convince educationnext.org/slant-on-teach…

More evidence that the global decline in test scores that began after 2012 is linked to the proliferation of smartphones and computers in class: The slide was bigger in countries where students began spending more time on devices (for leisure) generationtechblog.com/p/phones-at-sc…

There have always been fools among us, but clear and obvious values like this used to be considered common sense. Was the Andy Griffith show always this based?

Elite private schools charge $30k+ a year and hand out A’s like candy. Then the SAT exposes the gap. Parents don’t question the school or the grade. They question their kid. They hire tutors. They sacrifice their child’s free time to learn material the school was supposed to

Excellent piece by the eponymous "Eleanor Leftwich" whose terrific clothing line reflects this great advice. What I look for in a clothing tag open.substack.com/pub/eleanorlef…

Children from married parent families do better in school. This is (I think?) fairly common knowledge. But new analysis of NHES data The Institute for Family Studies shows that this gap is actually growing. Family stability matters... and it matters more than ever.

Until we accept that almost all school success is directly tied to parenting and not teachers, the schools will just continue to waste money on programs that don’t change anything.

Chicago has a public school with space for 912 kids, yet only 28 students are enrolled. The school is 97% empty. It spends $93,787 per student. It's staff to student ratio is 1:1. ZERO of the kids are proficient in reading.

Study Links Increased Broadband Access to Suicide Risk Among Teens The 74 the74million.org/article/study-…

Are you a "Math Person"? If so, you were made, not born that way. hechingerreport.org/math-learning-…

Very, very important information

This will be an extremely controversial article. Prof. Jean Twenge (author of 10 RULES, GENERATIONS) shows that young adults are walking from LGBTQ+ identity and it was more of a social contagion than an orientation. There’s been a 21% decline in young adults identifying as LGB+ in just 3 years.

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