A group of seventh and eighth graders from Gompers Junior High School in Joliet stood anxiously outside the school office with their teacher as they waited for district carpenters to confirm their suspicions about the location of a time capsule buried in the school 57 years ago. Several alumni fr...

The largest study ever of school cellphone bans finds that they offer decidedly mixed results, with teachers reporting fewer distractions when students lock their phones away during the school day, but little evidence the bans quickly bring improved academic achievement or better behavior, as man...