Math anxiety is as common among students as smartphones. Compassionate, individualized support can overcome it but teachers with 20 or more kids in a classroom have little time to give to that effort.

TRUMP NOW WANTS HARVARD TO PAY $1 BILLION OVER HANDLING OF ‘ANTISEMITISM’ PROTESTS
President Donald Trump took to Truth Social last week to up the ante in his standoff with Harvard and said the Ivy League school must now pay $1 billion to the federal government over its unacceptable tolerance of antisemitism on campus during the spring of 2024.

LIFE IMITATES TECH: BRAIN PROCESSES MATCH THOSE OF AI, STUDY SAYS
It turns out that our brains build meaning from language in more or less the same way that AI does, according to a new study from Hebrew University.

CONGRESS LAUNCHES PROBE INTO TRUMP FAMILY’S WORLD LIBERTY FINANCIAL
Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., the top Democrat on the House Committee on Competition, announced last week that he launched a probe into the Trump family’s crypto company World Liberty Financial (WLFI) that took a $500 million investment from a royal in Abu Dhabi that raised questions if the deal had anything to do with the major U.S. chip sale to the UAE that raised national security concerns.

ECONOMIC UPDATE – MARKET OVERVIEW
As we have long forecast, the 20th Century was the century of the United States but the 21st Century will be the Chinese century.

GOLD’S PRICE WILL REMAIN ALOFT THIS YEAR, ANALYSTS SAY
Gold’s price will average $4,746.50 over this year, according to a January Reuters survey of 30 analysts.

ISRAEL TAKES NEW STEP TO ANNEX WEST BANK, AND NOBODY WILL STOP IT
Israeli officials on Sunday took another step towards fully annexing the West Bank by removing hurdles for “settlers” to purchase land inside the territory in direct contradiction to international law.

NEW POLL: AMERICANS GROWING MORE PESSIMISTIC ABOUT THEIR ECONOMIC FUTURE,
A newly released New York Times/Siena poll found that there is a growing number of Americans who feel like it is becoming more difficult by the day to try and get by in the current economy and are growing more pessimistic about their future.

YOUNG PEOPLE SEE 60 PERCENT JUMP IN PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS IN LAST 30 YEARS, STUDY SAYS
A newly published study found that there has been a noticeable increase in people aged 14 to 20 who have been diagnosed with severe mental illness characterized by psychosis compared to previous decades.

THE COMING CONSTITUTIONAL ICE AGE
Last fall during the opening of the United Nations in New York City, I recognized the face of a federal officer from his days working in law enforcement in New Jersey and mine as a trial judge.
