Mitchell Rutherford, who taught biology at Sahuaro High School in Tucson, Ariz. for over a decade, says he called it quits after multiple failed attempts to pry his students from their devices ...

Mitchell Rutherford faced a crisis of confidence as smartphones took over his Arizona classroom and students lost the motivation to learn. ... A Teacher Did All He Could to Keep Kids Off Phones.

Teachers Emily Brisse, Mitchell Rutherford and Abbey Osborn have competed with smartphones for students' attention. Emily Brisse, Mitchell Rutherford and Abbey Osborn/Compiled by NPR hide caption ...

Teachers are quitting in droves as the delinquent ' iPad ' students are pushing educators to their limits. ... Mitchell Rutherford, a 35-year-old teacher who has taught for more than a decade, ...

Mitchell Rutherford, a high school biology teacher in Tucson, Ariz. Rutherford explained that students’ cellphone use in his class was so pervasive that it distracted him to the point of being a ...

Teachers Emily Brisse, Mitchell Rutherford and Abbey Osborne have competed with smartphones for students' attention. Last October, Claire Pauley and her husband Mitchell Rutherford learned they ...

Mitchell Rutherford Former high school biology teacher Mitchell Rutherford says he'd forget that his wife, Claire Pauley, was pregnant due to stress over students' phone usage ...

Teachers Emily Brisse, Mitchell Rutherford and Abbey Osborn have competed with smartphones for students' attention. Image: Emily Brisse, Mitchell Rutherford and Abbey Osborn/Compiled by NPR.