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William Kolbe

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Indexed articles, last 90 days
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Aug 24, 2026
Outlet visibility, for The Daily News of Newburyport
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Jul 6, 2026
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  1. Article · Aug 24, 2026 · William Kolbe | Commentary

    Schools should teach attention skills (opens the original)

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    In recent years, educators say it has been more challenging to get students to pay attention. Eighty-eight percent of respondents in an international survey of more than 3,000 teachers believed their students’ attention spans were getting shorter. In a study published last year about kindergarten through second-grade classrooms in the United States, 75 percent of teachers said attention spans had dropped since the COVID pandemic, when the use of laptops and technology for schooling spread rapi

  2. Article · Jul 13, 2026 · William Kolbe | Commentary

    The Great Divider (opens the original)

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    Donald Trump is a divider. That is not a revelation, but it is worthwhile to point out just how much he is working outside the realm of American leaders who preceded him. Presidents before Trump have certainly been partisan, combative, and at times deeply polarizing. Yet most still felt some obligation to speak, at least rhetorically, for the whole country – to gesture toward national unity after victory, to honor institutional limits, and to recognize political opponents as legitimate partici

  3. Article · Jul 6, 2026 · William Kolbe | Commentary

    The growing risk of AI emotional dependency (opens the original)

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    Clay Shirky, a vice provost at New York University, shared an interesting observation of a college classroom in his Feb. 1 New York Times article, “The Dangers of the A.I. Scripted Life.” Unbeknownst to the teacher being observed, her students were typing her questions into ChatGPT and reading its output aloud as their own replies. Shirky originally chalked this up to cognitive offloading, the use of artificial intelligence to reduce the amount of thinking required to complete a task. Howeve

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