What Are the Best Ways to Manage Cellphones in Schools?

By Arianna Prothero‍

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As educators and politicians alike call for reigning in students’ cellphone use in schools, an important question remains unanswered: What approach works best?

Because this issue is so new, there’s little research on the most effective policies. Should schools ban cellphones from bell-to-bell? Or instead allow students’ access to their devices while focusing on educating them about healthy tech habits?

Research on how cellphone policies work in schools in the United States is especially hard to find. So, Education Week asked Adam McCready, an assistant professor in residence at the University of Connecticut’s Department of Educational Leadership, to share some of the early findings from a study he currently is working on.

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