“They’re all saved in my phone.” One of the calls he made was to his 14-year-old son Connor, who was on a school fieldtrip to Washington. D.C. Connor had asked his dad to call at a ...

Area school officials are waiting to see the final version of a bill banning the use of cell phones in public schools before instituting new measures in their districts. A bill banning the use of ...

I look forward to signing this bill, allowing every Iowa student to once again prioritize learning." When the bill becomes law, school districts, charter schools and innovation zone schools will be ...

DES MOINES, Iowa (KWWL) -- A bill that would require Iowa schools to limit cell phone use in class is on its way to the Governor's desk. The bill passed in the Iowa house today, after previously ...

To that end, school officials came up with a plan to get every student involved in some after-school activity, club or sport every day. “We can’t just do the cellphone ban in isolation,” said ...

Students lock their phones away in Yondr pouches before the start of the school day at Happy Valley Middle School in fall 2024. (TNS) — School districts across Oregon would prohibit students ...

The bill requires schools to adopt policies limiting cellphone use during instruction, starting in the 2025-26 school year. Policies must address parent communication, device storage and ...

Now, two new studies from Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, published April 7 in Cell, detail the steps of an intricate ... molecules called cytokines influence brain ...

Bloomington High School is among the latest schools to potentially join that list. The actions follow Gov. JB Pritzker’s proposal to ban cell phones in classrooms within the state. Mackenzie McCaw, a ...

Columbia’s school newspaper published an incendiary op-ed from graduate student Mahmoud Khalil — in which he mocks his classmates for “manufactured” fears of anti-Semitism and likens the ...

a lifelong educator and the Principal at Sunrise Elementary School. She says cell phone distractions are increasing even in elementary schools, “And students going out of class and calling their ...