Everyone has the occasional bad class, but my worst run of sustained teaching failure came during the fall semester of my first year. I do not include the spring semester because the class in question ...

A bipartisan group of lawmakers in Congress is pushing for phone-free classrooms in the Pentagon’s 161 schools worldwide, calling smartphones harmful to mental health and disruptive to education. A ...

Today’s kids were practically born with a smartphone in their hands, whether we like it or not. Banning phones doesn’t solve ...

Every week, it feels like a new article drops warning parents about the dangers of smartphones and social media. Recently, Psychology Today raised the critical question: Is social media the true ...

An Arizona high school biology teacher had his last week of teaching after becoming exasperated with his students’ constant smartphone usage in the classroom. Sahuaro High School’s Mitchell Rutherford ...

Esther Ghey’s call for a phone ban in schools is understandable, but there is no quick fix for the problems our children face online, writes Lorraine Candy. The best we can do is teach them media lite ...

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