School Cellphone Bans Are Trending. Do They Work?

Proponents say no-phone rules reduce student distractions and bullying. Critics say the bans could hinder student self-direction and ...

School cellphone bans are trending. Do they work?

Proponents say no-phone rules reduce student distractions and bullying. Critics say the bans could hinder student self-direction and ...

More states press for phone bans in schools | AP News

For a school cellphone ban to work, educators and experts say the school administration must be the one to enforce it and not leave that ...

A Look at State Efforts to Ban Cellphones in Schools and ... - KFF

Many leaders in education and policymakers suggest cellphone bans will help mitigate youth mental health concerns and distractions during academic instruction.

Why do you think every school district hasn't already instituted a ...

Cell phone bans only work if you have across the board buy-in and good policies to support it. When we banned cell phones, a warning was ...

What Students Are Saying About School Cellphone Bans

Critics say the bans could hinder student self-direction and critical thinking. We asked teenagers what they thought: Should schools ban ...

School cell phone bans have hit most states. Not everyone is on ...

Reports from Orange County Public Schools in Florida, where cell phones are banned throughout the school day, suggest that students are learning ...

Cellphone bans spread in schools amid growing mental health worries

“We found the people who did not have their phones had lower levels of anxiety, high levels of course comprehension and high levels of ...

Cellphone Bans Trending : r/Teachers - Reddit

The federal and state governments are now involved and studying the effects of cellphones and social media use on children's development. They ...

Most Americans back cellphone bans during class, but fewer ...

Overall, 68% of U.S. adults say they support a ban on middle and high school students using cellphones during class, according to a Pew Research ...

What's behind the ban on cell phones in K-12 schools? - JHU Hub

"School administrators tell me they see the impact [of cell phones] every day. Our students are more anxious, more depressed, and less inclined ...

The evidence for phone bans mounts

Schools implemented restrictions at different times, and Abrahamsson demonstrates that the implementation of smartphone bans was uncorrelated ...

Do Not Disturb: Mobile Phone Ban Sweeps American Schools

Sixty-six percent said they believed bans would improve their child's mental health and 67 percent said they believe it would improve behavior.

Schools don't want kids on cellphones. Is banning them the solution?

“Students in schools with cell phone bans might not have adequate opportunities to develop self-directed strategies for using cell phones,” an ...

School Cellphone Bans Are Trending. Do They Work? - Gale

Main content ... Proponents say no-phone rules reduce student distractions and bullying. Critics say the bans could hinder student self-direction and critical ...

We looked at all the recent evidence on mobile phone bans in schools

However, the studies did not specify whether or not they were talking about cyberbullying. Teachers in two other studies, including this ...

Momentum grows for cell phone bans in schools - The Hill

Cell phone bans for schools are surging across the country as educators and state lawmakers look to tackle learning loss and reduce ...

Cellphone Bans Can Ease Students' Stress and Anxiety, Educators ...

The no-phone policy discourages those behaviors, they said. Students at Washington Junior High School use the unlocking mechanism to open the ...

Should schools lock up kids' phones? - Vox

A 2016 UK study, for example, found improved test scores at high schools that instituted bans. A Norwegian study, meanwhile, found that middle- ...

Cellphone Bans in School Are Back. How Far Will They Go? | NEA

According to the National Center for Education Statistics, in 2020, cellphone bans were in place in 76% of U.S. schools. · Some districts and ...