Kim Bleier understands why screens became “a huge piece of the educational narrative” in the darkest depths of the COVID-19 remote learning era. They were essential to education itself.  But Bleier, a Concord High School social studies teacher, wishes students had left some of that technology behind when they returned to the classroom.  Instead, the […]

For years, Manchester High School’s policy required students to put phones away in class, but allowed them to be taken out in the cafeteria. Students could use headphones or earbuds while eating lunch, but only over or in one ear. Then, in 2025, lawmakers passed a law championed by Gov. Kelly Ayotte that required schools […]