Florida Study: Cellphone Bans Promote Academic Gains … After a Year or So
The first study probing what happens when an entire state bans cellphones in schools finds that they do what they advertise: Phone use goes down precipitously, with daily cellphone visits falling by more than 80%.
More significantly, after Florida’s 2023 ban went into effect, student performance on reading and math tests improved modestly, at least in one large district studied, with scores up by about 3.5 percentage points in its second year. Schools with the highest pre-ban cellphone use saw the largest positive impacts.
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