Tracy Mumford

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My colleague Natasha Singer has been covering how schools have become a battleground in the fight over screen time.

It started with restrictions on cell phones, but now some districts are taking another look at laptops.

For at least a decade, tech companies have urged schools to have one laptop per kid, competing to get their products in the classroom.

The idea was that laptops would help kids learn.

prepare them for the workplace, and if everyone had one, it would level the playing field.

But studies have found that digital tools have generally not improved students' academic results or graduation rates, and they've sparked other issues.

And were people sending each other mean messages?

And how often was that happening?

Natasha talked with students who said even things like Google Docs became tools to bully other kids.

Some students just got super distracted by having a screen in front of them all the time.

Faced with this, one middle school in Kansas recently asked all students to return the laptops they'd been using freely in class and at home.

Now they're loaned out sparingly for specific activities assigned by a teacher.

Those are the headlines.

I'm Tracy Mumford.

We'll be back tomorrow with the latest and the Friday News Quiz.

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