A classroom debate over phone rules reveals how differently students and teachers view smartphone use in school and future jobs.

This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. (CHALKBEAT INDIANA) — Since Indiana's school cellphone ban went into effect in 2024, classroom ...

Students spend nearly a third of the school day on their phones, and frequent checking may make it harder to stay focused in class.

Cellphones are everywhere — including, until recently, in schools. Since 2023, 29 states, including New York, Vermont, Florida, and Texas, have passed laws that require K-12 public schools to enforce ...

Jamaal Wellman places his phone in a caddy at the start of a seventh-grade social studies class at Rolesville Middle School on March 27, 2024. File photo. Wake schools are tightening their cell phone ...

There are exceptions to the rules. As an example, students can use their phones riding to and from school on a school bus if it does not interfere with the driver. Students can also access their ...

LOWELL — It has been an evolving issue that has plagued classrooms for about two decades now, but after the first few months of a strict, new cellphone ban enforcement policy at the Collegiate Charter ...

(TNS) — Hand your child a phone when you are ready for their childhood to end. We’d suggest another spin on that online proverb: Let kids bring their phones to class when you want them to stop ...