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A New Study Shockingly Shows Cell Phones Are a Positive Influence on Tweens - Under One Condition
"It's what kids do with cell phones and challenges in regulating their device use, rather than merely owning a smartphone, ...
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Kids with smartphones reported higher well-being than kids without, study finds
"It’s what kids do with cell phones and challenges in regulating their device use, rather than merely owning a smartphone, ...
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USF Life in Media Survey preliminary findings show the good and bad of child cellphone use
The preliminary study is a trial run for a 25-year study that will track around 8,000 participants nationwide.
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Facing Cell Phone Distractions Head-On
When students—and teachers—aren’t distracted by cell phones, everyone can focus on learning. Here’s how one teacher came up ...
Coalition of groups, child experts push for schools to implement phone-free policies
A coalition of more than 75 groups and child experts signed a letter calling on all schools to implement a phone-free policy.
‘It was so freeing’: How a cellphone ban is changing life at a Virginia high school
Wakefield High School is part of a pilot program requiring students to put their phones inside magnetic locking pouches every ...
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Dozens of States Weigh Cell Phone Bans as Attorneys General Sue Social Media for Addicting Children to Devices
With health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. drawing criticism for suggesting biological harms to children from cell phones, ...
New law banning cellphones from Utah classrooms should have gone ‘bell to bell,’ Gov. Cox says
Gov. Cox said he wishes a new cellphone ban for Utah's classrooms that allows kids to use devices during breaks was ...
Georgia Recorder12d
Ban on cell phone use during K-8 school hours in Georgia goes to the governor
A bill banning personal devices like cell phones is on the way to Gov. Kemp’s desk after it passed the Senate nearly ...
A magnetic pouch is key to enforcing school cellphone bans. Kids are getting around it
Yondr makes a locking pouch that for years has been used at entertainment events to sequester cellphones and now is being ...
New York lawmakers get on board with Gov. Hochul’s ‘bell to bell’ school phone ban
The Senate had previously shown some slight disagreement with the Governor’s plan over whether schools should have some ...
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Kids with smartphones report higher well-being than expected, study finds
The first-of-its-kind, long-term study from USF also found 1 in 5 kids turns to reputable news outlets, but many never use news apps ...