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    May 09, 2024

    This Is What Happened After Several Schools Banned Cellphones

    Licensed Save to Library Preview Crop Find Similar FILE #: 117532484 student boy with smartphone texting in school classroom.

    Banning cellphones in schools improved academics, reduced bullying, and reduced students’ need for counseling, a 73-page Norwegian paper found.

    Girls benefited the most from the policies.

    “Banning smartphones significantly decreases the health care take-up for psychological symptoms and diseases among girls,” Sara Sofie Abrahamsson, a postdoctoral researcher and the paper’s sole author, wrote in the abstract. Post-ban bullying among both genders decreases.”

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