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#860: Social media and kids’ declining mental health, with Michael Horn

Michael Horn Michael J. Petrilli Amber M. Northern, Ph.D. David Griffith
3.8.2023
 

On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast, Michael Horn joins Mike Petrilli and David Griffith to discuss what schools can do to protect kids’ mental health and whether social media is making it worse. Then, on the Research Minute, Amber explores why schools seem to make more progress on math tests than reading tests.

Recommended content:

  • Michael Horn’s latest book, From Reopen to Reinvent: (Re)Creating School for Every Child
  • “Teen girls report record levels of sadness, C.D.C. Finds” —New York Times
  • “How to help young people limit screen time—and feel better about how they look” —NPR
  • “Is politics making kids depressed?” —Wall Street Journal
  • Jonathan Haidt’s Substack, After Babel
  • The study that Amber reviewed on the Research Minute: Evan Riehl and Meredith Welch, “Accountability, Test Prep Incentives, and the Design of Math and English Exams,” Journal of Policy Analysis and Management (September 26, 2022)

Feedback Welcome:

Have ideas for improving our podcast? Send them to our producer Nathaniel Grossman at [email protected].

Policy Priority:
High Expectations
Topics:
Teachers & School Leaders

Michael Horn is the co-founder of and a distinguished fellow at the Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation, a non-profit think tank and an adjunct lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He cohosts the top education podcasts Future U and…

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President, Thomas B. Fordham Institute

Michael J. Petrilli is president of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, research fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, executive editor of Education Next, a Distinguished Senior Fellow for…

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Amber Northern is senior vice president for research at the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, where she supervises the Institute’s robust research portfolio and…

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David Griffith is Associate Director of Research at the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, where he manages or authors reports on various subjects including charter schools, …

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