Do phone bans help students perform better in school?

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"Millions of children who head back to school this fall will find their phones are now gadgets non grata. Chancellor of New York City public schools David Banks has said that he is considering a ban on classroom phone access that would affect 1.1 million students, though the ban will not be in place at the start of the school year. In June his counterparts in Los Angeles approved a similar crackdown, affecting more than 400,000 students and starting in January 2025. More than a dozen states have now enacted school phone restrictions in the U.S. And the U.K. issued new guidelines for schools on phone bans this past February."

We summarize what the evidence shows about how these phone bans impact student performance and mental health. Read more at the link.

Is your district considering a similar ban? Is there already one in place? If so, how is it going?

Submitted September 05, 2024 at 10:15AM by scientificamerican https://ift.tt/KjX5cmv