Angie Mendoza, 17, right, demonstrates how the Yondr pouch is demagnetized to unlock her smart phone at University High School Charter in Los Angeles. (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times) The bell ...

There’s no denying the utility of cellphones in certain educational settings. But student distraction, social disengagement and bullying have reached concerning levels in the smartphone age, and K-12 ...

Beloit (WREX) – School District of Beloit is using a unique new tool to help students focus on classwork, rather than their cell phones. The district started using Yondr phone pouches, a small ...

4. No. Many students and their parents will not go along with this. It will be a very tough sell. 5. Unsure. It seems like a good idea, but only time will tell if it will be efficient and effective.

Visitors to Luzerne County courtrooms will be required to place cellphones and smartwatches into a locked pouch as they enter the county courthouse as of Thursday, according to a court order issued by ...

Rockdale County Public Schools will be using lockable pouches for students’ personal electronic devices in Pre-Kindergarten through 8th-grade classrooms for the upcoming school year. Georgia’s ...

The Niagara Falls City School District will use magnetic pouches to enforce New York's classroom cell phone ban.

The bell dinged and the University Charter High School students gathered their things and headed for the door. As students flooded from classrooms, a strange, new sound filled the long hallway: the ...

Discovery High School is using self-locking pouches to eliminate students’ number one distraction: cellphones. Michael Kleiner, principal of the Longview alternative school, said violations of the ...