New York City’s school smartphone ban has improved focus and movement in classrooms but revealed an unexpected skills gap: many students cannot read analogue clocks. Teachers across the city say ...

Students without smartphones seems to have been the theme of 2025 from the US to Australia. New York's policy to ban ...

As of a June 2025 EdWeek tracker, New York is one of 21 states, as well as Washington D.C., that have banned smartphones ...

And grandfather clocks, prized by some, but they tend to scare children, for many kid’s cartoons and stories seem to feature ...

Just like writing cursive, it seems that reading an old-school analog clock is the sort of skill that has fallen by the wayside in our smartphone age. That lapse was revealed when NYC public schools ...

Anyone of a certain age knows that time, like some maniacal driver, accelerates as it passes,” writes columnist. “This year went by in a blink even though every ...

Tiana Millen, an assistant principal at Cardozo High School in Queens, said this year’s ban on smartphones revealed that many ...

They just forgot that skill because they never used it, because they always pulled out their phone,” said Cheyenne Francis, ...

NYC's cellphone ban in schools has led to the unexpected issue of students struggling to read analog clocks, as they rely heavily on digital timekeeping. Despite attempts to curb device use, students ...

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Industrial German clockmaker Braun takes a contemporary turn with limited-edition collab with streetwear label Billionaire ...

A seemingly broken clock, though non-functional, accurately displays the correct time twice daily due to the 12-hour cycle. This familiar adage offers a profound lesson: accidental correctness doesn't ...