FRUITION
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)
The name given to the Monday after the spring time change
"Sleepy Monday" (Gallardo)
TIPS is the acronym for this interactive homework process
Teachers Involve Parents in Schoolwork (Voorhis)
This is social media’s largest source of revenue.
Advertising (Smith)
College graduates are more likely to have one of these things
Jobs, better salaries, or health insurance (Baum, Ma, & Pays)
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 (Lumina Foundation)
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
"location information, health information, religious identity, sexual orientation, facial recognition imagery, private messages, personal photos, and more" (Rainie)
Student debt has delayed home ownership of college graduates by this average number of years
Seven (Ellis).
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)
Digital addiction can lead to these 4 problematic symptoms
"Anxiety, depression, mood swings, and a lack of interest in the real world" (Swansea University).
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).
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).
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).
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)