Like any parent of a middle-schooler, you can bet I’m closely watching our school district’s upcoming policy on student ...

When I became New York’s first-ever mom governor, I vowed to fight for our state’s children as if they were my own.

While Madera Unified is moving swiftly to follow a state law restricting student cell phone use, Fresno Unified is taking a ...

A sensitive period for social learning coincides with the age at which many children use social media and encounter ...

Modern life is digital. Adults need to help young people navigate the costs and benefits, not launch bans and hope for the best.

A Winnipeg community hopes to roll the clock back a generation or two, when the sound of kids playing outside was prevalent and they did things without being tethered to adults or smartphones, with ...

Indeed, we’ll look back on the era between 2007 and 2024 as a period of sleep-walking through an earthquake. Letting students have unchecked access to smartphones in school makes as much sense as ...

A growing concern surrounding smartphones and their effects on academics and student mental health has led to phone-free ...

Some 33% of eighth graders in the U.S. have ‘below basic’ reading levels. Some researchers say it’s time to reconsider the ...

Social psychologist Jonathan Height joins TODAY's Savannah Guthrie for a conversation around his new documentary “The ...

A bill to prohibit smartphone usage in Arkansas public schools is nearing final approval in the state legislature.