There are exceptions to the rules. As an example, students can use their phones riding to and from school on a school bus if it does not interfere with the driver. Students can also access their ...

Over the first two weeks of the school year, Concord High School English teacher Heather Ouellette-Cygan spotted just four students’ phones. John Stark Regional High School music teacher Dan Williams ...

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 ...

This story was originally produced by the Concord Monitor. NHPR is republishing it in partnership with the Granite State News Collaborative. Over the first two weeks of the school year, Concord High ...

As students across the country head back to class, one thing won't be coming with many of them: their cell phones. This year more states than ever are banning students' devices during school hours. In ...

In the San Diego Unified School District, school returned as always this fall, but with a change: new rules about cell phone use, driven by a new state law requiring all schools to enact a policy ...