No longer will every student in the Fresno Unified School District have a laptop for use at home. For almost six years, the school district provided every student with a device, part of a nationwide ...

About 90% of schools provide laptops or tablets to their students. Over the past two decades, school districts have spent billions of taxpayer dollars equipping classrooms with laptops and other ...

Technology provides instant accessibility to information, which is why its presence in the classroom is so vital. Smart phones, computers, and tablets are already an omnipresent element of everyday ...

While moderate use of computer devices can have academic benefits, especially when they are used at home, intensive use is often correlated with diminishing performance, writes Michael R. Bloomberg.

As the first week of the semester has already passed, most classes have reviewed their syllabi and class rules. For some students, those rules have included a ban on laptops that probably comes as a ...

Today, we've asked Daniel Oppenheimer to share his tip of the week. Hi, I’m Danny Oppenheimer. If laptops are banned in your child’s classroom, you may have heard of me. That’s because it was my lab ...

Ah, back to school. As a longtime urban high school educator, I experience both happy anticipation and dread. I love the kids; they’re the best part. After years in the field, I still get excited ...

Biology professor Jody Hey was lecturing on human evolution one recent day at Temple University. His students vigorously took notes by hand in paper notebooks. There wasn’t a laptop in sight. Nor an ...

If Carroll County Public Schools stopped giving every student their own laptop to use, the system could save about $1 million for every three grade levels in which one-to-one devices are cut, ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. IOWA CITY — Students in the Iowa City Community School District will receive new Chromebooks this fall ...