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McCloskey: Classroom iPads teach kids the wrong skills
Adults are realizing they can lock up kids’ phones during the school day, and it’s not enough. Kids are still spending much of their classroom time hunched over a glass...
McCloskey: Universal child care isn’t always good for kids
Only a particular kind of child-care program (high-quality) and a particular cohort of children (primarily low-income) seem to reap long-term benefits.
McCloskey: Too many kids have encountered deepfakes
In the 1980s, when I was a kid, it was a picture of a missing child on a milk carton from across the country that encapsulated parental fears. In 2026,...
McCloskey: Too many kids can’t read – blame lack of spelling tests
A 2021 review found that “a growing number of schools in the USA and at least several schools in the UK have deemphasized or eliminated traditional methods of explicit spelling...
McCloskey: Republicans just got families more money
It is Republicans who have achieved the most significant concrete changes to family policy in recent memory.