Microsoft conducted a poll and found that 64 percent of parents aged twenty-two to forty believe that digital technologies bring their family closer together. However, that perception is not reality. A study by the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine has found that teens who spend an average or greater than average amount of time on screens per day are less attached to their families than teens who spend less time on screens. How does this affect education? The degraded relationships between teens and parents make it tougher for kids to do their best in school. Yet that’s not what
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