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RESEARCH ROUNDUP
The health effects of screen time
For many kids, play time outside has been replaced with games and videos on smartphone screens. How is this impacting children’s health? We present research on how screen time affects such things as fine motor skills, insulin resistance, sleep and suicide rates.
Check out the findings https://journalistsresource.org/studies/society/public-health/screen-time-children-health-research
The problem with abstinence-only sex education in schools
Our newest research roundup looks at sex education in schools. We’ve gathered and summarized 11 peer-reviewed studies that look at the topic from several angles, including the shortcomings of abstinence-only programs and virginity pledges.
Keep reading https://journalistsresource.org/studies/society/education/sex-education-abstinence-research
When she spoke recently at the Education Writers Association, Betsy DeVos, the U.S. Secretary of Education, swallowed whatever humility she has and presumed to redefine the role public education in our society. Betsy loves freedom from government (even though she works for the government), and she can’t seem to discern any difference between what is good for the individual and what is good for us all together.
Here is what she told the nation’s education journalists: “I entered public life to promote policies that empower all families. Notice that I said ‘families,’ not government… I am a common-sense conservative with a healthy distrust of centralized government. Instead, I trust the American people to live their own lives and to decide their own destinies… Margaret Thatcher said that government ‘has no source of money other than the money people earn themselves.’ There is no such thing as ‘public money.’…
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"That all citizens will be given an equal start through a sound education is one of the most basic, promised rights of our democracy. Our chronic refusal as a nation to guarantee that right for all children.... is rooted in a kind of moral blindness, or at least a failure of moral imagination.... It is a failure which threatens our future as a nation of citizens called to a common purpose... tied to one another by a common bond." —Senator Paul Wellstone --- March 31, 2000
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