Building stamina—the attention span and endurance to read texts for sustained periods—is critical to support reading comprehension.| Education Week
New York Times bestseller • Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize 'This is a book to shake up the world.' —Ann Patchett, The Shallows, What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains, Nicholas Carr, 9780393357820| wwnorton.com
Nearly 20% of children and young people ages 3-17 in the United States have a mental, emotional, developmental, or behavioral disorder, and suicidal behaviors among high school students increased more than 40% in the decade before 2019. Mental health challenges were the leading cause of death and disability in this age group. These trends were exacerbated during the COVID-19 pandemic.| www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Some 72% of high school teachers say that students being distracted by cellphones is a major problem in their classroom.| Pew Research Center