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school phone bans test scores

A mobile phone storage cage in a high school, used to keep student phones away during the school day
Education & Knowledge · Article

The Phones Went in Pouches. The Test Scores Stayed Put.

The largest study yet of school phone bans — more than 43,000 American schools — found that locking phones away changed a great deal about the school day, but almost nothing about test scores, at least not at first.

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