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Girls in virtual networks are subjected to hundreds of times more social comparison than girls had experienced for all of human evolution. They are exposed to more cruelty and bullying because social media platforms incentivize and facilitate relational aggression. Their openness and willingness to share emotions with other girls exposes them to de
... See moreJonathan Haidt • The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
three decades since the FCC revoked the Fairness Doctrine (which required TV and radio stations to devote some of their programming to important issues of the day and air opposing views on those issues)
Michiko Kakutani • The Death of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump
Derek Thompson • The Anti-Social Century
Identity protection left most of this group outside the places where knowledge and credentials came from—including all identities because most African Americans did not benefit from being “protected.”
George Friedman • The Storm Before the Calm: America's Discord, the Coming Crisis of the 2020s, and the Triumph Beyond
The technocracy attempted, however poorly, to address the condition of the collapsing African American family. No such concern is forthcoming from the technocracy today concerning the white working class.
George Friedman • The Storm Before the Calm: America's Discord, the Coming Crisis of the 2020s, and the Triumph Beyond
Why So Many Parents Are Opting Out of Public Schools
nytimes.com

Labor economist Kirabo Jackson has demonstrated that even the dreaded administrative headache known as “teacher turnover” captures the value of informed switching. He found that teachers are more effective at improving student performance after they switch to a new school, and that the effect is not explained by switching to higher-achieving school
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