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(The Center Square) – Following several states banning smartphones from schools, a pair of U.S. senators are introducing legislation to study the impacts of cell phone use in K-12 classrooms.
The debate over phones' place in educational spaces stretches back even further than NCES data measures—to the aftermath of the Columbine school shooting in 1999 and the Sept. 11 attacks in 2001 ...
As of the time when the bill was passed, almost two-thirds of Brazilian schools restrict mobile phone use during school hours and 28% of schools completely banned them. In addition, 82% of parents supported a phone ban. The ban affects students between 4 and 17 years old and was made to safeguard the mental and physical health of children. [38]
The first study in the world to look at school phone rules alongside measures of pupil health and education feeds into a fierce debate that has played out in homes and schools in recent years.
(The Center Square) – More than half of the school districts in Ohio have implemented cell phone policies, a year ahead of a deadline set by a new state law. Gov. Mike DeWine signed a law in May ...
The new law, which passed the Ohio House last week, requires K-12 school districts to create a policy to reduce cellphone distractions and limit cellphone use as much as possible during school ...
The laws regulating driving (or "distracted driving") may be subject to primary enforcement or secondary enforcement by state, county or local authorities. [1]All state-level cell phone use laws in the United States are of the "primary enforcement" type — meaning an officer may cite a driver for using a hand-held cell phone without any other traffic offense having taken place — except in ...
One idea is to ban cellphone use during school hours in grades K-8 with high schools having more flexibility. Should Wake limit student phone use in schools? The public can weigh in on the issue.