Senate Bill 78 comes after a 2024 law that first banned phones, tablets and laptops during “instructional time." Devices ...

A statewide baseline of distraction-free schools would reduce daily stress, rebuild meaningful face-to-face interaction and refocus students’ attention on learning.

As students returned from winter break across Oregon, a bell-to-bell cell phone ban went into effect in public schools statewide. The policy was put in place by Executive Order 25-09 after a similar ...

For the first time in the smartphone era, most K-12 students will start the school year in a state that has a policy restricting cellphones in school on the books. A wave of bills passed into law this ...

(Update: Local districts comment; Isabella Warren has a report tonight on KTVZ News at 5 P.M. SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) -- Governor Tina Kotek on Wednesday signed Executive Order 25-09, which aims to improve ...

At the beginning of the school year, the state of Ohio mandated that all K-12 learning institutions must have a student cell ...

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. More students than ever ...

COLUMBIA, Mo. – School districts around Missouri are preparing for a new school year with a new law that prohibits students from using cell phones during the school day. “There’s going to be a ...

A new Iowa law requires public schools to create policies limiting student cell phone use during instructional time. Early reports from some Iowa schools show improved grades, attendance, and fewer ...

After a semester with bell-to-bell bans on their mobiles, high school kids sit with a policy they still dislike.

New York’s new statewide smartphone ban in schools just went into effect this academic year — city public schools returned Sept. 4 — and students, parents and teachers are already grading the ...