What Educators Have to Say About Parents Texting and Calling Their Kids During School

The movement to restrict student cellphone use in schools gathered even more momentum when the California governor signed a law Sept. 23 that will require all public schools to develop and adopt cellphone policies. California—home to the nation’s largest population of K-12 students—is the fifth state to pass a law requiring districts to adopt policies that will limit cellphones in schools, according to Education Week’s cellphone policy tracker. Growing frustration among teachers—as well as evolving research linking the overuse of cellphones to mental health and learning problems—is fueling much of...