Indiana's school cellphone ban has led to fewer distractions in the classroom and some promising signs of improved academic ...

OPELIKA, Ala. – (WRBL) – With the start of the 2025–2026 school year, Alabama’s new FOCUS Act is officially in effect — banning student cell phones, smartwatches, and earbuds during the school day at ...

AI-generated summary reviewed by our newsroom. Read our AI Policy. It’s now illegal for North Carolina public school students to have their phones on in class unless there’s an emergency or they get ...

If this university truly wants to support student success, it must act now by implementing stronger classroom phone policies.

CHARLOTTE — Students across North Carolina will have to keep their cellphones in backpacks this school year. Gov. Josh Stein has signed House Bill 959 into law, which will restrict the use of ...

(TNS) — As lawmakers debate banning cellphones in classrooms, schools across Northeast Pennsylvania take different approaches to phones in their buildings. Across the country, 35 states have laws or ...

The Anchorage School District main office. Anchorage School District students can no longer use cellphones during class, under a new district policy. The new policy requires that students’ cellphones ...

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. North Carolina lawmakers are poised to pass a bill that ...

Another country bans phones in class saying children ‘need to see each other’s faces’ - The education minister has hailed the move as a ‘cultural change’ ...

Online classes have become significantly more common since the COVID-19 pandemic, especially with advancements in technology ...

Then State Attorney General Josh Stein answers questions during a town hall on the impacts of social media on youth at Athens Drive High School in Raleigh on March 11, 2024. Now governor, Stein signed ...