The Kids Can’t Focus

Screens may seem to be the simple answer, but nothing about society is set up to support deep work or sustained attention.
The Kids Can’t Focus
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American kids’ ability to focus is under a full-frontal assault, and it should be taken seriously as a national threat.

Hannah Frankman Hood
Hannah Frankman Hood
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Hannah Frankman Hood is the founder of renegadeEducator. She grew up homeschooled and skipped college to go straight into the startup world, and has now been working in alternative education for almost 10 years. She was previously a Program Manager at Praxis, a Hazlitt Fellow at the Foundation for Economic Education, and an instructor at The Objective Standard institute.