News Articles and Relevant Issues
Benefits of Cell Phone Use by Students
Educational Distruption Issues (including cheating)
- Boston district policy is to keep cell phones off at school - Editorial: Phone excess (25 Mar 2005, Shrewberry, MA)
- Cell phones help kids communicate about drinking parties - Town Gets Serious On Alcohol (24 Mar 2005, Needham, MA)
- Cell phones help spread bomb threat rumors - Another student arrested in bomb threats (24 Mar 2005, Uniontown, PA)
- Cell phones with web access can permit x-rated content access by students - Computer-saavy kids watch most TV (9 Mar 2005, Orlando, FL)
- Text messaging can be used for sexual harassment or solicitation - Think before you text: wireless messages show up in court (11 Jun 2004, Forbes)
- School cell phone rules considered (5 April, Hyde Park)
- Cell phone technology again challenges schools (19 Aug 2004, San Antonio, TX)
- Schools make rules for cell phone no-nos (23 Sept 2004, Fox News)
- Hold the phone (September 2000)
- Cell Phones in Schools around the world
- Do Cell Phones Belong in Schools? (2003)
- Safe From Harm (2003)
- NAESP Cell Phone Articles
Problems with Picture Phones
Other Cell Phone Problems
Blogging
Bullying
Sources for these Articles: Google News (http://news.google.com) is a great source for finding articles. Another good one is NetFamilyNews, they have a lot of articles related to kids and cell phones. For sites that require registration, you can use BugMeNot.com for login credentials to protect your privacy and email account from spam.
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