Dr. Twenge is a psychology professor at San Diego State University and the author of “10 Rules for Raising Kids in a High-Tech World.” The standardized test scores of American students had been rising ...

Any new technology is going to take a while to understand. I can still remember when there was panic over kids using calculators in the classroom and the belief that children would never again be able ...

• In Blacksburg, Va., Virginia Tech's engineering college is requiring all 1,400 incoming freshmen to purchase tablet PCs, and the college is recommending that they buy from Fujitsu. In 1984, the ...

Were he alive today, Samuel Taylor Coleridge might well have written, "PCs, PCs in every class, and no child is made to think." Psychologist Jane Healy is surely a voice crying in the ...