The Effects of School Phone Bans: National Evidence from Lockable Pouches
The Effects of School Phone Bans: National Evidence from Lockable Pouches
https://www.nber.org/papers/w35132
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4 Comments
Grant_Winner_Extra on
This is interesting – definite reduction in phone usage, but:
>effects on test scores are consistently close to zero. High schools see modest positive effects, particularly in math, while middle schools see small negative effects.
LofiStarforge on
Honestly, with how much people have been panicking that phones are destroying a whole generation of kids, you’d think a rigorous study like this would find huge, dramatic effects on test scores, mental health, bullying, something. But instead, it’s mostly a lot of noise and some really tiny, fleeting bumps. The alarm just doesn’t line up with the size of what they’re actually measuring.
NerdMachine on
Are there places actually enforcing phone bans? I live in Canada and they rolled out a very comprehensive policy on this a few months ago that got HUGE attention but the teachers are already basically at their limit just dealing with the day to day BS.
My kid is in high school and he said few teachers enforce it.
jpb21110 on
no schools actually enforce it and kids are just on their computers and iPads all day instead of their phones. Need to remove all electronics from the classrooms!!!
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This is interesting – definite reduction in phone usage, but:
>effects on test scores are consistently close to zero. High schools see modest positive effects, particularly in math, while middle schools see small negative effects.
Honestly, with how much people have been panicking that phones are destroying a whole generation of kids, you’d think a rigorous study like this would find huge, dramatic effects on test scores, mental health, bullying, something. But instead, it’s mostly a lot of noise and some really tiny, fleeting bumps. The alarm just doesn’t line up with the size of what they’re actually measuring.
Are there places actually enforcing phone bans? I live in Canada and they rolled out a very comprehensive policy on this a few months ago that got HUGE attention but the teachers are already basically at their limit just dealing with the day to day BS.
My kid is in high school and he said few teachers enforce it.
no schools actually enforce it and kids are just on their computers and iPads all day instead of their phones. Need to remove all electronics from the classrooms!!!