Schooling the smartphone

Schooling Laws, School Quality, and the Returns to Schooling∗

Educational attainment increased sharply during the first part of the 20th century as compulsory schooling laws became more stringent and school quality greatly improved. Since prior research finds that school quality gains contributed to increased education levels during this period, causal estimates of the returns to schooling which use schooling laws as instruments but ignore the contemporan...

Schooling the Supreme Court

Supreme Court Justices' uniform professional backgrounds have drawn increasing criticism. Yet it is unclear how diverse professional training would affect the Court's decisions. This Article offers the first empirical analysis of how Justices with diverse professional training vote: It examines a unique period when Justices with formal legal education sat with Justices who entered the professio...

Schooling the Disturbed Child

Examining the Effect of Smartphone on Musculoskeletal Disorders and Neck Kinematic Among Smartphone Users in Different Postures and Tasks

Background and Objectives: In the last decade, the smartphones have become one of the most popular technologies around the world. Due to the multi-functional use of smartphones, the technology users spend long hours using it. Methods: This was a semi-experimental and experimental study. In the first section, 98 students entered the semi-experimental part and completed demographic and body map ...

The Society of the Spectacle Revisited: Separation, Schooling, and the Pursuit of Dangerous Citizenship

In this paper we set out to accomplish several goals. Primarily, we seek to re-interpret Guy Debord’s (1967) work The Society of the Spectacle in light of modern-day schooling, principally within North America (although we recognize the global connectivity inherent in any current discussion of formal education). In addition, we aim to utilize Debord’s conceptualizations as a series of means and...