Despite warnings from early childhood experts against too much screen time, schools' reliance on educational technology for grade levels as low as transitional kindergarten has grown — and frustrated ...

As we rethink screen time in our schools, our guiding question should be simple. What actually helps kids learn best?

Mounting evidence shows that excessive computer use can harm children, so parents are cutting back at home. Now, the debate has shifted to the classroom.

Excessive screen time has been shown to have negative effects on children and adolescents. It’s been linked to psychological problems, such as higher rates of depression and anxiety, as well as health ...

A premature baby, a pandemic and new pediatric research reveal why the screen-time debate is more nuanced than simply ...

Kids' screen time skyrocketed during the pandemic. While not all of that usage is bad, it has tech companies, and researchers are trying to figure out how to make the internet safer for children.

In a world where children are increasingly connected to screens rather than the people around them, families are struggling to navigate this new digital reality. I am the mother of a caring ...

SAN ANTONIO — The school year is underway and that means kids' brains are back to the books after weeks of summer vacation. Some of those summer hours might have been spent in front of TVs, tablets or ...

CROTON-ON-HUDSON, N.Y. — A few months before her daughter started kindergarten, Claire Benoist saw a Facebook post that stunned her. Another family with an incoming kindergartner was wondering if it ...

PART I OF V The Great Digital Bet Cast your mind back to the late 1990s. Technology evangelists, in government, in schools, in Silicon Valley boardrooms, were making a very confident prediction: the ...