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Cellphone bans have little impact on academics or behavior, study finds
Cellphone bans reduced in-school phone use, but they did not immediately lead to better academic or behavioral outcomes, according to a new study by the National Bureau of Economic Research, Stanford University reported. The national report compared schools that implemented strict phone policies and those that did not over a three-year span across more than 43,000 middle […] The post Cellphone bans have little impact on academics or behavior, study finds appeared first on Local News Matters .
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According to Local News Matters’s source item, Cellphone bans have little impact on academics or behavior, study finds, Cellphone bans reduced in-school phone use, but they did not immediately lead to better academic or behavioral outcomes, according to a new study by the National Bureau of Economic Research, Stanford University reported. The national report compared schools that implemented strict phone policies and those that did not over a three-year span across more than 43,000 middle […] The post Cellphone bans have little impact on academics or behavior, study finds appeared first on Local News Matters .
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