Wednesday, May 13, 2026

The obsession with school smartphone policies coninoues and it is narrowly focused on distraction. How stupid!

Here is another such study! How relevant is it how often a student checks his/her smartphone!

It is high time to integrate smartphones into school curricula!!! Banning is stupid!

Again this study also resorts to the totally antiquated term "cell phone" as if we are still living in the 1970s/1980s!

"A new RAND study finds that stricter school cell phone policies are associated with less student phone use in class, but even the most restrictive policies don’t completely stop students from checking their phones.

The study draws on survey data from the RAND American Youth Panel, a nationally representative panel of middle and high school students. Cell phone policies and how those policies are enforced vary widely among schools, so this approach provides a clearer picture of how those differences relate to student behavior. ..."

How School Cell Phone Policy Strictness Shapes Student Phone Use: Selected Findings from the American Youth Panel | RAND

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