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The Internet Made Us All Feel Like Experts. Then Someone Gave Us a Test.
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A University of Georgia study found a gap between investors’ confidence and their actual knowledge. The uncomfortable part is how familiar that gap feels beyond investing.
Students Didn’t Just Learn More Without Their Phones. They Started Liking the Rules.
Reported Feature
A large experiment found stronger grades and quieter classrooms after phone restrictions — plus an unexpected change of heart. As New Jersey schools put bell-to-bell policies into practice, that may be the most revealing result.
You Don’t Have to Remember a Place to Inherit Its Memory
Reported Feature
Middle-school filmmakers documented the nearly century-old Maplewood Theater at the exact moment one generation’s nostalgia is becoming another generation’s local history.
Sometimes Kids Don’t Want Advice. They Just Want Someone to Listen.
Reported Feature
New research from Camp Fire suggests that supporting young people’s emotional well-being can begin with something surprisingly simple: asking what they need before deciding how to help.
We're Not Afraid to Talk About Death. We're Afraid to Ruin a Nice Day.
Reported Feature
A new survey of 5,000 Americans finds inheritance conversations feel more awkward at birthdays than funerals - and that waiting for the 'right' moment may be exactly the problem.
Everyone Is Told to Learn AI. Who Gets the Chance?
Reported Feature
PwC’s new workforce survey suggests a divide in who gets to participate in the future of work. AI use is rising while fewer workers say they can access the learning resources they need.
Sparta’s Thanksgiving ‘Tradition Before the Tradition’ Returns for Its 20th Year
Event Krogh's Restaurant & Brew Pub · Sparta, New Jersey
The Sparta Education Foundation Turkey Trot will bring runners, walkers and families to White Deer Plaza on Nov. 26, raising money for educational programs in the township’s public schools.
Rutgers Is Teaching Engineering With Coffee. Coffee Nerds Knew This Was Coming.
Reported Feature
A Rutgers chemical engineering elective called Grounds for Chemical Engineering turns grind size, water temperature, extraction, pressure and milk foam into a lesson about how much invisible engineering hides inside ordinary life.
Maybe Gen Z Didn’t Stop Reading. Maybe We Kept Counting the Wrong Things.
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New research on Gen Z and public libraries complicates the familiar story that phones, social media and short-form video displaced books. The more interesting question may be whether our definition of a “reader” has kept up with the ways reading now happens.
Nobody Trusts the Ranking. Everybody Still Wants to Know the Ranking.
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A new Kaplan survey finds that skepticism of college rankings has become durable. Participation has, too, which may say more about the power of a metric than the credibility of the metric itself.
Maybe the Gen Z Stare Isn’t a Lack of Social Skills. Maybe They Just Don’t Want This Conversation.
Reported Feature
New Preply research finds Gen Z reports more daily small talk than older generations while also avoiding more live conversations. That sounds contradictory only if we assume communication has one correct format.
Everybody Says Put Down the Phone. Fine. Where Are We Supposed to Go?
Reported Feature
A new national survey suggests Americans want more face-to-face life. The harder question is whether we have left them enough affordable places to have one.
Write the Story. Build the Answer.
Culture
The best modern publishing may have stopped asking writers to choose between being interesting and being useful.
Apparently, We Need Conversation Lessons Now
Reported Feature
Rutgers is giving students credit, and paying fellows, to practice a skill we once assumed everyone picked up along the way: staying in a difficult conversation.
The Computer Science School Would Like Everyone to Please Put Down the Computer
Reported Feature
Cornell Unplugged is asking a campus built partly around technological innovation to spend a week using less of it, not because technology is bad, but because even the people helping shape its future are asking what happens when we make room for everything it can displace.
The Internet Is Helping Teach Kids What Behavior Gets Rewarded
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Children have always learned how people are supposed to behave by watching other people. Now some of that observation happens inside digital spaces where approval, attention and conflict are visible, measurable and sometimes amplified.
Nothing Sits Still
Culture
Every finished thing should become raw material for the next one.
Rutgers Just Put Central Jersey on a T-Shirt. Argument Over, Right?
Reported Event New Jersey
New Jersey has three regions, one official middle, and approximately nine million opinions about where any of them begin.
What Happens When Your Thumb Still Reaches for an App That Isn't There?
Reported Feature
A five-day social-media break at Laguna Beach High School suggests that the most revealing part of a digital habit may be the moment before we realize we're doing it.
You Can’t Ask for Help With Something You’ve Been Taught to Call Normal
Reported Feature
Rowan University researcher Sarah Wilson is examining how engineering culture may shape not only student stress, but the language students use to decide whether their own distress counts as something that warrants support.