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 ...

School districts are rolling out the state-mandated cell phone ban differently, but superintendents appreciate the return to students socializing without them. Benton-Carroll-Salem Superintendent ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Students at a public charter science academy sit at their desks during English class in Warr Acres, Okla., in August 2025. More ...

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 ...

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 ...

DES MOINES, Iowa (IOWA CAPITAL DISPATCH) - The momentum behind cellphone bans in schools has reached more than half the states, as teachers, superintendents and education experts praise these policies ...