As fidget spinners have become ubiquitous at schools this year, many places have banned them while others have decided to try to use them for educational purposes. Exactly how? One example is giving ...

WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP - Round and round and round they go! Fidget spinners are all the craze at Wedgwood Elementary School. Recently, fifth-grade math students at the school raced their fidget spinners ...

Fidget spinners are the latest craze for young people, but they were originally created for anxiety, autism and helping people focus. They come in all shapes and sizes.The spinners have been banned in ...

A huge focus of the maker revolution has been a focus on STEAM education, or rather an education in science, technology, engineering, art, and mathematics. We’ve seen innumerable kits and tools ...

Jenn Jarmula, an elementary- and middle-school teacher in Chicago, recently hung a sign outside her classroom. This Is A Fidget Spinner Free Zone, it read. Fidget spinners–which dominate Amazon’s ...

Are fidget spinners helping antsy students to sit still and concentrate on their lessons, or are they just driving kids (and teachers) to distraction? Education Week‘s Kristine Kim explores the ...

Fidget spinners have saturated middle schools and office cubicles at an astonishing rate since catching hold of Americans' addled attention spans earlier this year. In a development that now seems ...