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Youth sports and social business company Leifras Co. Ltd. (LFS:NASDAQ) celebrates its 25th anniversary, "setting vision for becoming global infrastructure through 'sports and social,'" per PR Newswire.
"Want kids to be better at math and reading? Send them out for recess," writes University of Virginia Today. "Experts at the University of Virginia’s School of Education and Human Development say the science is clear: Giving students time to move, play and recharge helps them learn more effectively." The article points out a steady decline in recess time nationally over the course of the past two decades.
"GameUp Africa rebrands as GameUp Academy with always-on learning platform," writes Pocket Gamer of the AI gamification elearning platform.
The game of chess "enters school curriculum in Kurdistan, Iraq," writes ChessBase.
"Why get an MBA when you can watch a sports documentary?" asks The Economist. "Sports documentaries on streaming platforms offer business lessons."
NFL's Indianapolis Colts and noted engineering school Purdue University create educational 'Colts STEAM Combine,' per Colts.com. STEAM is an acronym for Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Mathematics.
Educational media content provider WildBrain Ltd. (WLDBF:OTC, WILD:TSX) acquires kid-safe character experience company Personality AI, reports Animation Magazine.
Is your President confusing your child by saying sports betting is now in class with stock market securities? Well, yes actually.
Brandeis University is now conjoining a new finance major with a minor in sports analytics. The timing of the initiative is impeccable, with the federal US Commodities Futures Trading Position (or more to the point, one man, chairman Michael Selig) toeing the President's line that sports statistics are now all-out nationwide fair game as securities and ETF derivatives. The marriage of sports betting and the stock market and commodities and futures exchanges is evolving at an exponential rate.
Research study out of Penn State University finds "More than half of adults in US say they lack basic statistical understanding," per Phys.org. Professor Mark Ramos was quoted saying "From the daily weather forecast to a baseball player's batting average to an individual's risk of developing lung cancer, understanding statistics can help people in the United States navigate their lives." The Sports Index has long marveled at how most young boys don't know much about probability and percentages, yet they understand perfectly that a baseball player who's batting 0.333 on average gets one hit every three official at-bats. Sports statistics are a proven way to teach a large number of children about mathematics. The same applies to a sports stock market concept. Using on-field or on-court stats as "investing," not so much. Without money on the line, it's called "fantasy sports." With real hard capital at risk, the practice is analogous to gambling. Is that really how the masses want their kids to be taught?
More contradictory signals from 'adults'. Are there lines which may not be crossed? Do enough people and parents care? "Gambling on the Little League World Series. Sports bettors have gone too far," writes TechCrunch. "Sports betting site boasts that it's letting users bet on Little League," writes Futurism. While nations can put an end to the practice, The Sports Index asks, how it can be stopped with offshore operations and/or under international maritime law?
How did we get here? Who's in charge of corralling the adults? "How the Supreme Court kicked off sports betting's addiction crisis," writes Balls and Strikes. Sports betting to build wealth is becoming the new American dream," writes MarketWatch. Or nightmare.
Gamification platform WallStreet Billionaire introduces a free trading simulation that allows users to get a taste of retail trading and trading protocols and best practices without having to pay for lessons by actually losing money, per AB Newswire.
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