Joanne Jacobs
Who needs middle school?
Boston will eliminate middle schools under a plan proposed by Superintendent Tommy Chang. The city already has created a number of K-8...
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Joanne Jacobs
- Jan 14, 2018
- 1 min
Phone-addicted kids: Can Apple help?
Apple should design parental controls to keep kids from overusing iPhones, argue two major shareholders in a Jan. 6 letter, reports Luke...
Joanne Jacobs
- Dec 20, 2017
- 1 min
Boston starts at 7:15 am, so teens can sleep in
To give teens more time to sleep, Boston Public Schools will start high schools later and elementary and K-8 schools earlier. Most high...
Joanne Jacobs
- Dec 3, 2017
- 1 min
Iceland’s clean teens
Iceland’s teens are much less likely to get drunk, use drugs or smoke since the country focused on the problem in 1998, reports BBC News....
Joanne Jacobs
- Nov 24, 2017
- 1 min
Kids can take it
You’d never see this ad on American TV, says Let Grow. #Norway #play
Joanne Jacobs
- Nov 3, 2017
- 1 min
Sleepy teens
Teens aren’t getting enough sleep, concludes an analysis by Jean Twenge, a San Diego State psychology professor. In two surveys, 40...
Joanne Jacobs
- Nov 2, 2017
- 1 min
Higher ed anxiety: What can colleges do?
Students with mental-health problems, especially anxiety and depression, are flooding college health centers. The most selective colleges...
Joanne Jacobs
- Oct 16, 2017
- 2 min
Anxiety is way up for teens: Why?
Severe anxiety afflicts more U.S. teens than ever, writes Benoit Denizet-Lewis in the New York Times Magazine. What’s going on? Over the...
Joanne Jacobs
- Sep 29, 2017
- 1 min
Vaccinate — or homeschool
Vermont is granting fewer exemptions to its mandatory vaccination law, reports Ed Week‘s Lisa Stark on PBS Newshour. #vaccination #Vermont
Joanne Jacobs
- Sep 2, 2017
- 2 min
Too young for a smartphone?
The average child gets his or her first smartphone at age 10, but some parents are pledging to keep their kids smartphone-free till...
Joanne Jacobs
- Aug 26, 2017
- 1 min
Sleepy teens: High schools start too early
More than four in five high schools start the day earlier than sleep researchers recommend, reports Sarah D. Sparks in Education Week....
Joanne Jacobs
- Aug 9, 2017
- 2 min
Smartphone teens are lonely, unhappy
The “super-connected,” smartphone-addicted teens of “iGen” are lonely and unhappy, writes Jean M. Twenge in The Atlantic. “Rates of teen...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jul 23, 2017
- 3 min
Stick and stones may break my bones …
Speech is violence, if it causes chronic stress, argues Lisa Feldman Barrett, a Northeastern psychology professor, in The New York Times....
Joanne Jacobs
- Jul 21, 2017
- 1 min
Why owls get lower grades
When schools start before 9 am, “owls” get lower grades than “larks,” concludes a new paper in Scientific Reports, writes Helge...
Joanne Jacobs
- Apr 22, 2017
- 1 min
Reasons to dislike 13 Reasons Why
In 13 Reasons Why, a Netflix series based on Jay Asher’s popular book,a 17-year-old girl sends tapes to all the people she blames for her...
Joanne Jacobs
- Mar 13, 2017
- 2 min
Move to learn
Kids are spending too much time sitting indoors writes Angela Hanscom, a pediatric occupational therapist, in the Washington Post‘s...
Joanne Jacobs
- Feb 20, 2017
- 1 min
Schools push back start times
U.S. schools are beginning to push back start times to give teens more time to sleep, reports Chris Weller on Business Insider. The...
Joanne Jacobs
- Feb 11, 2017
- 1 min
The $10,000 nap
Colleges and high schools are creating “nap clubs” and offering pricey “nap pods” to encourage students to get more sleep, reports Rob...
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