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In spring 2024, there were more than 17.8 million college students in the United States who owed this many trillions of dollars in loan debt

$1.75 trillion (Safier & Harrison)

100

The name given to the Monday after the spring time change

"Sleepy Monday" (Gallardo)

100

TIPS is the acronym for this interactive homework process

Teachers Involve Parents in Schoolwork (Voorhis)

100

This is social media’s largest source of revenue.

Advertising (Smith)

200

College graduates are more likely to have one of these things

Jobs, better salaries, or health insurance (Baum, Ma, & Pays)

200

It was on this day that daylight savings time was first implemented

Mar. 31, 1918 (Klein)

200

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).

200

The average time spent on social media by users aged 16-64

1.72 hours (Mander)

300

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 (Lumina Foundation)

300

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).

300

He is responsible for bringing homework to America after encountering it in Prussia

Horace Mann (ThroughEducation)

300

Social media users often provide these pieces of information frequently used for account security verification that can be used for identity theft

"location information, health information, religious identity, sexual orientation, facial recognition imagery, private messages, personal photos, and more" (Rainie)

400

Student debt has delayed home ownership of college graduates by this average number of years

Seven (Ellis).

400

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).

400
Students who spent this amount of time on their homework each day scored 40 points higher on the SAT-Mathematics subtest than their homework-less peers

31 to 90 minutes (Maltese et. al)

400

Digital addiction can lead to these 4 problematic symptoms

"Anxiety, depression, mood swings, and a lack of interest in the real world" (Swansea University).

500

Researcher Kevin Dugan claims this about the next 10 years of trades jobs

"In the next ten years, there’s going to be five people who leave trades jobs and only two who enter the field" (Dugan).

500

This is the primary reason for the delay in the removal of daylight savings clock changes until 2023

"The delay was meant to give airlines and other transportation providers time to adjust to the change, as they set schedules months ahead of time" (Bolton).

500

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).

500

The Surgeon General wants to put a warning label on social media thanks to what happened with cigarette packages in 1965

"The warning label now standard on cigarette packages was introduced in 1965 and heralded a 50-year decrease in smoking among Americans" (Barry)