The 600,000-member-strong union NYSUT—which stands for New York State United Teachers—held a conference on September 20 to ...

An enduring debate surrounds cellphones in schools, but are states right to ban them? Experts tell Newsweek the pros and cons ...

Social media has been studied at length and found to be bad for kids and teens. Anecdotally, kids can be emboldened by the ...

She recently released a study that shows a link between the rise of the smartphone and growing rates of depression, suicide attempts, and suicide itself among teens. The finding is based on data ...

As teens head back to school ... She gave her daughter the online safety talk as soon as they started having their own phones. "I have a 12-year-old and a 14-year-old and they've had their ...

As social media and mobile phones continue to impact the mental health of young people, a new campaign hopes to raise ...

ARTICLE UPDATE 9/18/24: The Virginia Department of Education released its final guidance on cell phones in schools, intended to improve student learning, social interaction, and mental health.

more than a third of teens ages 13 to 17 say they use social media “almost constantly” — including during the school day. The first state to use the legislative process to ban cell phones in ...

New accounts of people below 16 will automatically be Teen Accounts and will come with all of the new privacy and security ...

New "Teen Accounts" help protect kids on the app and give parents more control over that their children are exposed to.

It's just a safety factor," Jessica Meyer said. Eyewitness News checked the policies for school districts around Houston. In HISD, students must leave their cell phones at home or in their backpacks.

Topics include animals and pets, dance, crafts, road trips, and more. The features listed above can help keep a teen safe, but parents can take things further and monitor their kids’ accounts ...