Ohio students soon will have to put down their cell phones during the school day after state lawmakers prohibited them under most circumstances. The restrictions were included in the finalized state ...

Generation Faraday uses a proprietary fabric to create cell phone bags that are impermeable by radio waves, effectively deactivating the phone will in the bag, freeing students and classrooms from ...

More students than ever went to class without their cell phones in 2025. Researchers, teachers and students look back on attempts to build phone-free learning spaces this year.

In October 2024, a 36-member task force on screen time recommended to the Kansas Board of Education that school districts ban ...

Like millions of families across the country, my household is loud, busy and plugged in. As a mom of five boys, I understand how much our kids rely on their phones. We use cell phones not just for fun ...

Superintendents in four Connecticut districts that implemented cell phone bans over the past few years are seeing improvements in a number of areas. State Rep. Jennifer Leeper D-Fairfield, co-chair of ...

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School boards across Oklahoma are implementing new policies to limit student cell phone use, following the passage of a new state law. The law requires public school districts to restrict student cell ...

The state budget bill signed by Gov. Mike DeWine bans students from using cell phones under most circumstances in K-12 public schools. Districts must adopt the policy by Jan. 1, 2026. While some ...