Digital addiction is destroying kids' ability to pay attention, says Jon Haidt.

British schools may show Netflix's "Adolescence" to warn students about online misogyny and "incel culture."

Students are less independent, more likely to ask their parents to protect them from any effort.

Teens average 90 minutes each school day on their phones.

Achievement is falling, and gaps are widening, for American students and adults since well before the pandemic.

TikTok is supposed to go dark today, but may get more time.

Young Americans are less patriotic than older generations.

Would-be regulators of "disinformation" are trying to punish deviation from their beliefs, charges journalist Matt Taibbi in The Free...

Politicians who want to protect us from "misinformation" or "hate speech" want to end free speech.

Ninety percent of teachers in a NEA survey want their schools to ban cellphones in class, and 83 percent back all-day bans.

British mother persuaded teens to go smartphone-free for a month, then camp out for the weekend on their own.

California is getting on the no-phones-in-class bandwagon , reports AP. Gov. Gavin Newsom wants school districts to restrict students’...

Middle school is the worst. Kids hit puberty and turn deeply stupid for a few years before they learn to handle it. Even so, the seventh...

Parents should band together to "say 'no' to smart phones and social," writes Laura Yuen in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune. She dreams of...

Smartphones are a major classroom distraction, say nearly three-fourths of high school teachers and a third of middle school teachers in...

Young children are becoming digital addicts, hooked on fast-paced scrolling, swiping and mini-rewards designed into platforms such as...

Chronic absenteeism is way up, writes Robert Pondiscio, but kids aren't just absent from school. A disturbing number of young people are...

In an Education Week survey, 55 percent of principals said banning TikTok would "make their jobs easier," reports Olina Banerji. TikTok...

Phone-centered childhood is a disaster, writes Jonathan Haidt in The Atlantic. In the early 2010s, "adolescents in rich countries traded...

Seventy-two percent of teenagers say they often or sometimes feel "peaceful" when they're without their smartphones, according to a Pew...