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The average amount of undergraduate student loan debt
"$37,172" (Hess)
The name given to the day after the spring time change
"Sleepy Monday" (Gallardo)
TIPS is the acronym for this interactive homework process
Teachers Involve Parents in Schoolwork (Voorhis)
Americans have reported an increase in social media usage since 2008 from 26% to this amount
"Around seven out of ten Americans (72%) use social media sites such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Pinterest, up from 26% in 2008" (Hampton et. al).
College graduates are more likely to have this provided to them by their employer
Health insurance (Hardy)
It was on this day that daylight savings time was first implemented
Mar. 31, 1918 (Klein)
Temple University professor Kathryn Hirsch-Pasek had this to say about young learners and homework
It is not the most effective tool for young learners to apply new information: “They’re learning way more important skills when they’re not doing their homework" (Coleman).
The average time spent on social media by users aged 16-64
1.72 hours (Mander)
Researchers at Georgetown found 99% of job growth between 2010 and 2016 went to people with these
Associate’s degrees, bachelor’s degrees, and graduate degrees (Carnevale et. al)
The estimated profits of the golf industry and the reason for it during one month of daylight savings time
"The golf industry reported that one month of DST was worth $200 to $400 million because of the extended evening hours golfers can play" (Handwerk).
He is responsible for bringing homework to America after encountering it in Prussia
Horace Mann (ThroughEducation)
Social media users often provide these pieces of information frequently used for account security verification that can be used for identity theft
"68% of social media users share their birth date publicly, 63% share their high school name, 18% share their phone number, 12% share a pet’s name" (Topping).
This cause is cited by most millennials as the primary reason for not owning a home
"20% of millennials are homeowners, and most millennials say their student debt has delayed home ownership by seven years on average" (National Association of Realtors).
In Spring Forward, author Michael Downing said this about baseball and daylight savings time
“Baseball [was] a huge early supporter, too, because there [was] no artificial illumination of parks, so [they could] get school kids and workers to ball games with the extended daylight, they have a later start time" (Downing).
31 to 90 minutes (Maltese et. al)
A Jan. 2015 study published in the Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology said this about college freshman and social media
"College freshman should use social networking sites to build networks of new friends, feel socially integrated at their new schools, and reduce their risk of dropping out" (Junco).
According to a New Yorker article by Rebecca Mead, college teaches students to do this
“College teaches students to nurture critical thought; to expose individuals to the signal accomplishments of humankind; to develop in them an ability not just to listen actively but to respond intelligently" (Mead).
This is the primary reason for the delay in the removal of daylight savings clock changes until 2023
"The delay is meant to give airlines and other transportation providers time to adjust to the change as they set schedules months ahead of time" (Bolton).
This list of strategies to organize and complete homework showed increased grades and more positive comments on report cards
"Prioritizing homework activities, collecting study materials, note-taking, and following directions" (Shepard).
These two countries logged the most time on social media of any other country.
"With a daily average of 4 hours 1 minute, the Philippines logged the most time on social media of any other country, followed by Brazil at 3 hours 45 minutes" (Editorial Team).