Does your phone feel like a blessing or a burden? Either way, there's probably a lot you can learn from new phone bans. Many K-12 students are going phone-free – but not by choice. In over half the ...

The buzz of cell phones is absent from Alabama classrooms this fall. A new statewide ban on devices during class is shifting the focus back to teachers and lessons, and educators say the difference is ...

As smartphones have become ubiquitous in the lives of American teenagers, classrooms across the country are grappling with a new challenge: Keeping students focused. In response, 35 states, including ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — This school year, districts around Ohio have completely banned the use of phones during school hours following a new law from the latest state budget. Districts don’t have to ...

The saboteur in today’s classroom is a familiar device: the screen. Back-to-back coverage in The New York Times has brought the classroom crisis into the public eye: The first on Nov. 12 discussed a ...

More students than ever are going to class without their cellphones. Thirty-two states have laws limiting personal devices during the day, with 20 of them passing laws this year. NPR's Sequoia ...

Ahead of the 2024-25 school year, my leadership team and I began developing a plan to get cellphones out of our classrooms for good. Mountains of emerging data and national studies made crystal clear ...

New York state has established a youth-driven council to provide perspectives on distraction-free schools as the state prepares for a ban on cellphones in classrooms starting with the 2025-2026 ...