JUNE 2, 2026
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US Test Scores Decline - NY Times
“Students’ test scores had been increasing since 1990 — then abruptly stopped in the mid-2010s. That coincided with two events: an easing of federal school accountability under No Child Left Behind, which was replaced in 2015, and the rise of smartphones, social media and personalized school laptops.”
Schools Across America are Quietly Admitting that Screens in the Classroom Made Students
Worse Off and are Reversing Years of Tech-First Policy (Fortune)
What Happened After a Teacher Ditched Screens (The Atlantic)
Chromebook Remorse: Tech Backlash at Schools Extends Beyond Phones (NYTimes)
Google work in Schools Aims to Create a ‘Pipeline of Future Users’, Internal Docs Say (NBC News)
iPads in Kindergarten, YouTube on Breaks: The School Screen-time Battle (NYTimes)
We Gave Students Laptops and Took Away Their Brains (The Free Press)
Parents are Opting Kids out of School Laptops, Returning them to Pen & Paper (NBC News)
What Happened When One Teacher Ditched Devices (The Atlantic)
Los Angeles becomes the first major school district to require screen time limits (NBC News)