The #BEtime movement wants to replace kids' busy schedules with free play time. The average kid in the United States has only 30 minutes of unstructured time each day. That's significantly less than in the 1980s, when kids had roughly two hours a day to do whatever they wanted. The problem is that modern kids'... Continue Reading →

An Atlanta charter school will not recite the Pledge of Allegiance as part of its morning meeting agenda. Atlanta Neighborhood Charter School on Grant Street announced the change Tuesday in a statement from elementary campus president Lara Zelski. The decision was made “in an effort to begin our day as a fully inclusive and connected community,”... Continue Reading →

There is no doubt that Capitalism is the most successful system of all time, however, it needs an upgrade. We live in a time where technology and the economy are highly interconnected, although it just started, we already see the need of upgrading our system. Technology is dramatically reducing the need of human labor in... Continue Reading →

In 2013, producing the first lab-grown burger cost $325,000. By 2015, though the cost had dropped to around $11, Mark Post, the Dutch researcher who created the burger, thought that it might take another two or three decades before it was commercially viable. But the first so-called “clean meat,” produced from animal cells without an... Continue Reading →

Hundreds of people had their homes foreclosed on after software used by Wells Fargo incorrectly denied them mortgage modifications. The embattled bank revealed the issue in a regulatory filing this week and said it has set aside $8 million to compensate customers affected by the glitch. The same filing also disclosed that Wells Fargo (WFC)... Continue Reading →

Throughout most of U.S. history, American high school students were routinely taught vocational and job-ready skills along with the three Rs: reading, writing and arithmetic. Indeed readers of a certain age are likely to have fond memories of huddling over wooden workbenches learning a craft such as woodwork or maybe metal work, or any one... Continue Reading →

Kathleen McKinnon always planned to start a family, but it proved to be harder than she imagined. But her company, like many others in the Bay Area tech community, subsidizes costly assisted-reproduction techniques, including in vitro fertilization (IVF), for families like McKinnon's. In 2017, after two failed attempts, she was thrilled to learn that the... Continue Reading →

West Virginians serving overseas will be the first in the country to cast federal election ballots using a smartphone app, a move designed to make voting in November's election easier for troops living abroad. But election integrity and computer security experts expressed alarm at the prospect of voting by phone, and one went so far... Continue Reading →

The United States is on pace to add about 2.6 million jobs this year under President Donald Trump's watch. Yet the bulk of the hiring has occurred in bastions of Democratic voters rather than in the Republican counties that put Trump in the White House. On average for the year-ended this May, 58.5 percent of... Continue Reading →

As superintendents, principals and teachers plan for the upcoming school year, one thing is certain: We are serving a generation of children who are more anxious, depressed and suicidal than any generation before. A recent NPR Education Series broadcast states, "Up to one in five kids living in the U.S. shows signs or symptoms of... Continue Reading →