Film students don't have the attention span to watch movies.

Teens average more than an hour per school day -- and five hours a day -- on their phones, most on social media, video and gaming apps.

Australia is trying to kick under-16-year-olds off social media.

To protect teens from digital addiction, parents must take charge.

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."

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

Young Americans are less patriotic than older generations.

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

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...

Schools are going phone free to remove distractions in class and encourage students to socialize in their free time, report Meg Oliver...

U.S. teenagers average 4.8 hours a day on social media apps such as YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook and X (formerly Twitter),...

But, Mom, everyone else has a smartphone. Parents are trying to say "no" to smartphones for elementary and middle schoolers, but it's...

Social media is endangering the mental health and well-being of children and adolescents, warns Surgeon General Vivek Murthy in a 19-page...