It's troubling that in the USA while inflation adjusted education spending per student has grown more than 150% since 1970...

-Reading scores have remained unchanged
-Math scores have remained unchanged
-Student aged suicide rates have grown significantly
-Student aged obesity rates have grown significantly

What are we doing wrong?

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TinyViolins · 31-35, M

Cell phone usage is a major distraction in the classroom and also leads to shorter attention spans and decreased mental health, particularly with anxiety and depression. A lot of that may also lead to obesity

The thing is that student test scores and academic achievements were rising up until about 2013, when sites like Twitter and Instagram were peaking and smart phones had reached market dominance.

Is it causation or correlation? My guess would be it's closer to the former.

Social media algorithms are poison