
Middle School Matters
Hosted by Shawn and Troy and Dave · Troy Patterson, Shawn McGirr
4.6from 67 ratings
- 223
- Episodes
- 8
- Transcribed
- 67
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2001
- First episode
About Middle School Matters
MSM-Middle School Matters is designed for Middle School Educators. We focus on the Middle School educators. Providing news, conversation on relevant topics, and links to other great sites, we want to reach out to other middle school educators. Join in the discussion at MiddleSchoolMatters.com
- Publisher
- Troy Patterson, Shawn McGirr
- Category
- education · education · education
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 3 Jan 2001
- Latest episode
- 10 Oct 2026
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MSM 714: Just Being Seventh Graders
Published 10 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] On the flip side, over at the New York Times, there is an article from Maria Hargurita. I've got her. Sorry, you than me. Yeah, sorry. Oh, no, no, I'm sorry. It's Jonathan Slater. The image is about Maria. Jonathan Slater is a clinical professor of psychiatry at Columbia University Irving Medical Center, who specializes in children and adolescents. And this is an interesting article entitled, I'm a child psychiatrist. Screens are not the problem. Which is, the easy thing to blame is the screens. And he's got some, I want to do a few pull quotes for you here. Parents and politicians and best-selling psychologists are increasingly anxious about how much time children and teenagers spend on screens and how it affects their mental health. […]
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- 4.6 / 5
- 63 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
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Shawn and Troy and Dave host the show. Published by Troy Patterson, Shawn McGirr.
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