Phone bans
States can require a phone rule. Students follow the district handbook. All day or class only, lunch, storage, and watches.
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Topics
A Formative Spaces Topic is a maintained research file on one education question. It is not a rating, not a ranking, and not advice about what a district should adopt.
Each file is built to show two layers that ordinary coverage often treats as the same thing. States write a law, a memo, or nothing. Students and teachers follow the local record: a handbook, an approved-tool list, or a program catalog. Those layers can differ. A statewide phone rule does not tell you whether phones come out at lunch. A classroom AI memo does not tell you whether ChatGPT is allowed. A program that teaches AI is not the same as a policy that governs tool use at school.
The pages also keep source record separate from interpretation. Inventory rows and coded counts come from named documents. Sentences that read those counts sit next to the inventory so a parent can see which statements are coded facts and which are a reading of this researched set.
Records carry sourcing and as-of dates. Where a statute, guidance memo, handbook, or official program page was retrieved, the row keeps the source and the date it was read. Missing ages, prices, or policy details stay blank or flagged rather than guessed.
Topics are kept as research files, not as scores. When the underlying sources are recompiled, the page should move with them. This index does not open new Topic franchises. The current files are the three already listed here: phone bans, classroom AI, and AI learning resources.
Classroom AI
States write a law or a memo. Districts pick the tools. Who may use AI, which products are named, and whether a person has to make the final call.
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Programs that teach AI concepts and skills. Filter by age, grade, cost, and format. This is not a ranking, and it is not the same as classroom AI policy.
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