After school programs around the country are having the same issue as a lot of business: finding enough qualified staff members. This was a problem even before the pandemic, but a new survey from the Afterschool Alliance shows 87% of afterschool programs are concerned about finding and keeping staff, and more than half have had to put interested families on waiting lists. This week on The Best Of Our Knowledge, a discussion on the current state of after school programs.
From TV, podcasts and video games to countless social media platforms, young people are constantly bombarded with media all day long. How much of that do they actually understand, and at what age should we start teaching them? According to the nonprofit organization Media Literacy Now, media literacy should be taught in K – 12 all over the country. We'll talk about their new policy paper.
One reason we need younger people to learn about media literacy is that younger people are spending a lot more time in front of screens. That’s the topic of this week’s Academic Minute.
In our age of digital communication, social upheaval, and political division, the issues surrounding our First Amendment rights are more complicated and controversial than...
Nearly 3 million children in the US have at least one parent in prison. Family incarceration has devastating effects on kids, from raising their...
The Best of Our Knowledge explores topics on learning, education and research. On this program, we’ll learn about curious orcas. The Supreme Court has...
