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Denmark does not have a mobile phone ban, but nevertheless the Danish Ministry of Education advised that mobile phones must be kept out of classrooms. Therefore, many schools up to 7th grade offer "cell phone hotels" for students to store their devices. Still, mobile phones are allowed in higher schools during breaks and free periods. [37]
Florida was the first state to crack down on phones in school, passing a 2023 law that requires all public schools to ban cellphone use during class time and block access to social media on ...
HeyTutor looked at NCES data, surveys, and state and local laws and policies to illustrate how the movement to limit school phone usage is growing. Cellphone bans in schools are trending, but ...
Schools across the country are discovering that there's no perfect strategy for curbing students' phone use. Saying phones should be banned in schools is easy. Actually doing it is a lot more ...
The school’s phone ban was a grassroots effort that began with a few teachers volunteering to pilot the program in their classrooms. Full faculty buy-in came next, followed by convincing parents.
The country's largest school district proposed a ban, but ultimately wasn't able to get phone restrictions in place before the 2024 school year, CBS New York reported.
Just as banning the internet would have deprived students of essential skills and opportunities, banning phones risks leaving students ill-prepared for the digital world they are set to inherit.
Some of the first evidence of censorship of school curriculum in the United States comes during the Civil War, when Southern textbook publishers removed material critical of slavery. [7] [8] After the Civil War, a vigorous movement from groups like the United Daughters of the Confederacy in the South promoted the Lost Cause of the Confederacy ...