What content can Carroll Schools students access on school devices? Officials explain.

How much time should students spend on school devices? What does the school system block access to, and how is content filtered? The Carroll County Board of Education discussed these questions, and ...
Washingtonian

Schools Are Banning Phones. What About Laptops?

When my son was in ninth grade, at a well-regarded DC public school, he spent his days guzzling entertainment. We did not send him to school with a phone—it was too distracting—but the school district ...
Sun Sentinel

Broward schools to issue laptops to students for first time since COVID hit

Cellphones may be out, but laptops are back in at Broward County schools. The school district plans to issue every student a laptop computer when they return to school on Aug. 11. They’ll be able to ...
USA Today

What is the Chromebook Challenge? The trend that has students destroying school laptops

The Chromebook Challenge gained traction on TikTok in May. The trend encourages students to stick small items into school-assigned Google Chromebook USB ports. A New Jersey high school student has ...
The New York Times

The Screen That Ate Your Child’s Education

Dr. Twenge is a psychology professor at San Diego State University and the author of “10 Rules for Raising Kids in a High-Tech World.” The standardized test scores of American students had been rising ...
The Conversation

Cellphones in schools – more states are taking action to reduce student distraction without eliminating tech access

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