Ohio’s School Cell Phone Policies Taking Hold

Peter GreeneSenior Contributor

Peter Greene covers classroom impact of education policy and practice

Last week, the U.S. Department of Education called on states, districts, and schools to adopt policies around the student use of call phones in school. Ohio is one state that is already well on its way.

The department’s call is one more sign of the growing consensus that smart devices and screens need to be brought under control in the nation’s schools.

Pressure to ban the devices has been building in education circles for years; most teachers can tell a story of a student checked out and unable to separate from their device. Works like Jonathan Haidt’s The Anxious Generation have fed the idea that internet connection is at least partly responsible for a growing mental health problem among children.

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