Raj is conducting online research for a report about the history of space exploration.
Read the excerpt.Although the pay might be better, year-round school would negatively affect the lives of teachers everywhere. Teachers make school possible in the first place, and they need time off in the summer to plan for the school year and to relax. We can’t be good teachers if we’re exhausted! It’s a well-known fact that without significant time away from school, teachers—and students, as well—are going to experience burnout.
Which statement is an example of loaded language?
Read the excerpt.People who think clearly would never vote against year-round school. The only people arguing against it selfishly want to take long summer vacations. Year-round school will instead address the very serious problem of students falling behind in school during the summer. Teachers will waste less time reteaching what students learned the year before. Shorter but more frequent breaks will give students the time off they need and teachers time to plan. There are really no downsides.
Zamir is researching voting requirements.
Read the passage.The age requirement for voting was enacted after the Civil War by the Fourteenth Amendment, setting the voting age at 21. The Twenty-Sixth Amendment, ratified in 1971, decreased the age from 21 to 18. This amendment was proposed in response to the Vietnam War. Since many of those drafted to fight were between 18 and 20, Congress did the right thing by lowering the voting age.
Read the excerpt.We should give up the useless fight with our students and buy phones for them instead. Some kinds of screen time work well in school. Research, for example, is sometimes done more effectively online rather than tracking down print sources in a library. Screens also helps us connect with people in other locations, creating new digital pen pals. Screens can also be integrated into the classroom to enhance learning instead of distracting from it.
Read the excerpt.In a recent study, 70% of teens reported that they check their phones as soon as they get up in the morning. When teenagers start their day by looking at a screen, it only gets worse from there. Evidence shows that excessive screen time causes behavioral issues and interrupted sleep, two things that can have a huge impact on how teens do in school. Therefore, the only solution is to take phones away from teenagers.
Read the excerpt.This new digital world we live in is putting screens in front of students’ eyes more than ever before, and it’s bad. A new study shows that too much screen time limits children’s language skills, and no wonder! They have to talk to other children to develop those skills, rather than staring at a screen all day. It’s time to slash screen time, especially in the classroom. Teachers should spend more time fostering social interactions between students. And parents could step up, too, and yank those screens out of their kids’ hands!
Read the excerpt.A researcher at a local university recently came out with a study saying excessive screen time is actually good for students. The study comes to a series of unbelievable conclusions, including that screens help students connect with other people. How can that be true? Plenty of evidence shows that screen time ruins students’ sleep time and causes behavioral issues in school. This one foolish researcher put out a contradictory study, but it’s plain wrong.
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