USA Today reports that Late School Start Times are Good For Teens. Early school start times before 7:20 am make it almost impossible for students to get adequate sleep.
According to the article the consequences of inadequate sleep in teenagers:
Increased risk for obesity, stroke and type 2 diabetes; higher rates of automobile accidents; and lower levels of physical activity.
Increased risk for anxiety and depression; increased risk-taking behaviors; impaired interpretation of social/emotional cues, decreased motivation and increased vulnerability to stress.
Lower academic achievement, poor school attendance; increased dropout rates; and impairments in attention, memory, organization and time management.
As a parent of a teenager, I work to keep tabs noting problems with sleep deprivation. There are significant issues with a later start time with respect to after school activities. It is important to be careful of the time commitments and very important to get appropriate amounts of sleep.
Rick Newman from Yahoo Finance describes at 2022 Workplace in an August 19, 2014 article. In the article he describes a future where worker key strokes on the computer are rated on a scale similar to an ACT score. Workers will be extensively interviewed to find out if they fit into the corporate culture. Workers without unique skills will be commodities.
The future of work A journey to 2022 according to pwc breaks work categories into three major areas: The corporate (blue), the sustainable(green) and the small(orange). Each group has a very different set of values and expected behaviors. The report summarizes survey results about future work from over 10,000 individuals in China, India, Germany, UK and US.
According to the widely known but seldom quoted futurist, Monsignor Gregory Casura, work in the not so distant future will be done by robots we purchase and program to do our work. The better we are at programming and optimizing the functionality of these robots the higher our pay scale. We'll also send out drones to deliver pizzas.
Drone above the U of M east bank - N. Carlson
Robots are already replacing parking lot attendants, bank tellers, movie projectionists, movie ticket sellers, toll booth operators and kids mowing lawns (see Robomow). Robots will not be replacing plumbers, steam fitters, carpenters. They may replace truck, train and taxicab drivers. BBC News describes the coming age of driverless trucks. It is a bit of an oversell but one driver can essentially control two trucks in tandem with the aid of computer technology.
Ed Hess - Author of Learn or Die - 4min.
Ed Hess- In the next 10 - 20 years roughly 50% of jobs are in danger of replacement by technology. We can no longer afford to fake it 'till you make it. We are conditioned to be defensive about what we don't know. This destructive behavioral trait will cost people their jobs.
