Banning phones in schools is not linked to pupils getting higher grades or having better mental wellbeing, the first study of its kind suggests.
Students’ sleep, classroom behavior, exercise or how long they spend on their phones overall also seems to be no different for schools with phone bans and those without, the academics found.
However, they did find that spending longer on smartphones and social media in general was linked with worse results for all of those measures.
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