26 states just passed laws trying to recreate this exact classroom. The largest study on the results dropped two weeks ago.
Stanford, Duke, Michigan, and UPenn tracked 4,600 schools that locked student phones in Yondr pouches. Three years of data. Test score improvement across all subjects: close to zero. Attendance change: close to zero. Self-reported attention: unchanged.
The phones are in locked pouches all day. The kids still can't focus.
Here's what makes the data interesting. The UK ran this experiment in 2013 and saw a 6.4% test score bump, with the biggest gains among low-achieving students. The US ran it a decade later and got almost nothing.
The difference is exposure length. UK students in 2013 had smartphones for about 6 years. US students in 2024 had them for 17. One group got interrupted early. The other had already built the habit architecture.
The one metric that did move: by year three, student well-being improved. Grades stayed flat. Focus stayed flat. Attendance stayed flat. But the kids felt better. Turns out the phones were making them miserable even when they weren't hurting their scores.
This video looks calm because it was filmed before the thing that would make calm impossible had arrived. 26 states are now learning that confiscating the device doesn't reverse what the device already did.
when you realize that the most many men do for one woman is the bare minimum your friend does on a random Tuesday at 3pm just because she loves you and wants to see you
Wealthy parents are going to start sending their kids to "low tech" private schools while working class kids are going to be handed tablets filled with ed tech and AI. Writing by hand and turning in paper assignments will become the new upper-class cultural symbol.
It took 93 years to admit PCOS isn't just cysts, it’s a full metabolic failure.
We’ve been gaslit, handed birth control pills, and told to "just lose weight" while fighting chronic insulin resistance from the inside.
Women’s health is still treated as an afterthought. We deserve better.
Today marks Nakba Day, an annual day of remembrance to commemorate the expulsion of more than 700,000 Palestinians between 1947 and 1949 during the creation of the State of Israel and the year that followed.
Inea is a New Yorker and a Nakba survivor. She shared her story with us — one of home, tradition and memory over generations.
This video grieves my soul.
America, how can we stay silent? How can we fund this?
Even more so, American Christians how can you turn your head and not care?
These are God’s children too.
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