Lauraine Langreo

Middle school students in Spokane, Wash., are allowed to use their cellphones before they enter school buildings. While Washington state doesn't have a statewide mandate, at least 33 other states and the District of Columbia require school districts to ban or restrict students’ use of cellphones in schools, according to an Education Week tally.

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Classroom Technology What the Research Says How Much Time Do Teens Spend on Their Phones During School?

Lauraine Langreo & Gina Tomko, January 14, 2026

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Artificial Intelligence From Our Research Center More Teachers Are Using AI in Their Classrooms. Here's Why

Lauraine Langreo, January 12, 2026

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Randi Weingarten, the president of the American Federation of Teachers, speaks at a press conference in Philadelphia on Sept. 2, 2025. Weingarten says that cuts to federal education funds by the Trump administration "are only hurting young people."

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Education Funding ‘Terminated on a Whim’: The AFT Sues Trump’s Ed. Dept. Over Funding Cuts

Lauraine Langreo & Caitlynn Peetz Stephens, December 30, 2025

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President Donald Trump addresses the nation from the Diplomatic Reception Room at the White House on Dec. 17, 2025, in Washington. Some experts on K-12 education are concerned that Trump wants to unleash the use of AI with very little regulation.

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Artificial Intelligence K-12 World Reacts to Trump’s Executive Order to Block State AI Regulations

Lauraine Langreo, December 18, 2025

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Fourth graders participate in an introductory lesson on artificial intelligence during a computer applications class at Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., School No. 6 in Passaic, N.J., on Oct. 14, 2025. Some experts suggest schools should use computer science classes to teach AI skills.

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Science Q&A How to Get More Students Into Computer Science Classes in the Age of AI

Lauraine Langreo, December 16, 2025

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Student Well-Being & Movement Download How Schools Can Help Students Moderate Their Social Media Use (DOWNLOADABLE)

Lauraine Langreo & Vanessa Solis, December 12, 2025

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Students in Bentonville public schools’ Ignite program, which offers career-pathway training, work on projects during class on Nov. 5, 2025, in Bentonville, Ark. As career and technical education evolves, new survey findings suggest many school counselors are still more focused on college.

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College & Workforce Readiness From Our Research Center Can School Counselors Support the Push Toward More Career Pathways?

Lauraine Langreo, November 26, 2025

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Ed-Tech Policy How Schools Can Balance AI’s Promise and Its Pitfalls

Lauraine Langreo, November 25, 2025

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A computer screen in English teacher Casey Cuny's classroom shows ChatGPT at Valencia High School in Santa Clarita, Calif., on Aug. 27, 2025.

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Artificial Intelligence ChatGPT for Teachers: A Boon, a Bust, or Just ‘Meh’?

Lauraine Langreo, November 21, 2025

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Students engage in an AI robotics lesson in Selver Perez’s 4th grade computer applications class at Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. School No. 6 in Passaic, N.J., on Oct. 14, 2025. The Passaic district is ahead of the curve when it comes to providing AI literacy lessons for students.

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Artificial Intelligence Take These 4 Steps When Rolling Out AI Literacy Lessons: One District's Strategy

Lauraine Langreo, November 19, 2025

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Attendees watch a presentation at the Microsoft booth on how to incorporate AI into classroom management on June 29, 2025, at the ISTE+ASCD conference in San Antonio.

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Artificial Intelligence From Our Research Center Teacher AI Training Is Rising Fast, But Still Has a Long Way to Go

Lauraine Langreo, November 18, 2025

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Students do presentations about their AI-powered projects that are designed to help boost agricultural production during Calla Bartschi’s Introduction to AI class at Riverside High School in Greer, S.C., on Nov. 11, 2025. South Carolina is emphasizing the development of AI skills that are relevant for the careers students want to pursue in the future.

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College & Workforce Readiness From Our Research Center Businesses Want Employees With AI Skills. Are K-12 CTE Programs Keeping Up?

Lauraine Langreo, November 17, 2025

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A student in a 9th grade honors English class uses a cellphone to work on a timeline for an assignment on <i>To Kill A Mockingbird</i>, including drawing some of the characters from the book, at Bel Air High School in Bel Air, Md., on Jan. 25, 2024. Most states have started requiring restrictions to students' access to their phones during the school day, but Maryland does not have statewide restrictions.

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Ed-Tech Policy Q&A Why a Good Cellphone Policy Is About More Than Just Restrictions

Lauraine Langreo, November 12, 2025

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Spencer Hollers works to equip Southside Independent School District buses with Wi-Fi on Aug. 13, 2020, in San Antonio, Texas. Wi-Fi on school buses became E-rate-eligible in 2023 under the Biden administration, but in 2025 the Trump administration's FCC removed the service from the E-rate eligible services list.

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Ed-Tech Policy After FCC Cuts, This Nonprofit Keeps Schools’ Wi-Fi Connections Alive

Lauraine Langreo, November 5, 2025

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Molly Kaldahl, right, and Ava Nkwocha, who attend Millard South High School in Omaha, Neb., meet with the legislative staff of U.S. Sen. Pete Ricketts, R-Neb., to discuss the National Student Council’s federal legislative agenda on Oct. 28, 2025, in Washington.

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Education Funding Students Make Appeals to Congress to Protect K-12 Funding

Lauraine Langreo, October 30, 2025

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The Oct. 20 outage at Amazon Web Services (AWS) disrupted learning management systems, school safety software, and other operations for schools around the country.

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IT Infrastructure & Management AWS Outage Hit Schools Hard. How to Prepare for the Next Tech Meltdown

Lauraine Langreo, October 22, 2025

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Nathali Hernandez, left, and Zoe Estrella Quiroz use AI tools to design a program to direct a robot named Dash to follow a path on a grid. The 4th graders worked together in a computer applications class at Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. School No. 6 in Passaic, N.J., on Oct. 14, 2025. A growing number of school districts are emphasizing the development of AI literacy.

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Artificial Intelligence 'It's Not Magic': How These Schools Are Teaching AI Literacy

Lauraine Langreo, October 20, 2025

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Student Well-Being & Movement Kids’ Social Media Use Linked to Lower Reading and Memory Scores, Study Suggests

Lauraine Langreo, October 17, 2025

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Classroom Technology Q&A One Teacher's Take and Research on the Screen-Time Debate

Lauraine Langreo, October 14, 2025

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English teacher Casey Cuny reads in his classroom as a screen displays guidelines for using artificial intelligence at Valencia High School in Santa Clarita, Calif., on Aug. 27, 2025. A new report raises serious concerns about the potentially negative effects of AI use on students.

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Artificial Intelligence Rising Use of AI in Schools Comes With Big Downsides for Students

Jennifer Vilcarino & Lauraine Langreo, October 8, 2025

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