Smartphones In Schools New York Times, September 6, 2024 Teachers are supposed to educate children, many of whom have still not caught up from Covid learning loss, while in a battle for attention with fantastically entertaining computers. A growing body of academic research suggests it isn’t going well. But school officials and policymakers have begun […]

Students Target Teachers in Group TikTok Attack, Shaking Their School The New York Times, July 6, 2024 Seventh and eighth graders in Malvern, Pa., impersonating their teachers posted disparaging, lewd, racist, and homophobic videos in the first known mass attack of its kind in the U.S. A spokesperson for the Great Valley School District confirmed […]

How A Connecticut Middle School Won The Battle Against Cellphones The Washington Post, May 1, 2024 What unfolded at Illing Middle School in Manchester, Connecticut reflects a broader struggle underway in education as some administrators turn to increasingly drastic measures to limit the reach of a technology that is both ubiquitous and endlessly distracting. Scores of schools […]

What Students Are Saying About the C.D.C. Report on Teen Sadness New York Times, March 2, 2024 Teenagers reported record levels of sadness in the most recent Youth Risk Behavior Survey conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. According to the recently released survey, which was given to 17,000 adolescents at high schools […]

High School Students Walk Out Over Cellphone Ban Newsweek, Feb 9, 2024 Students at a high school in Texas are protesting a new cellphone ban. Hundreds of students gathered outside James Madison High School in South Houston. Some held signs that read “We are high school kids not cellmates!!!” and “You are not here to […]