{"id":17631,"date":"2025-02-05T09:38:46","date_gmt":"2025-02-05T08:38:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/05\/school-ban-on-phones-does-not-improve-grades-or-health-says-uk-study\/"},"modified":"2025-02-05T09:38:46","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T08:38:46","slug":"school-ban-on-phones-does-not-improve-grades-or-health-says-uk-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/05\/school-ban-on-phones-does-not-improve-grades-or-health-says-uk-study\/","title":{"rendered":"School ban on phones does not improve grades or health, says UK study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers find restrictive policies do not lower overall time children spend on their phones throughout the day<\/p>\n<p>Banning smartphones at school does not improve academic grades and children\u2019s wellbeing, a study suggests.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers from the University of Birmingham did find that spending longer on phones and social media in general was linked to lower grades, poor sleep, disruptive behaviour and a lack of exercise.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/education\/2025\/feb\/05\/school-ban-phones-not-improve-grades-health-uk-study\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/e32f8a0e9cd7ed09648a57372b70897131e7a8f8\/0_163_4896_2938\/master\/4896.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=3992024ff497fb7e90b2f147ec89fc39\" title=\"School ban on phones does not improve grades or health, says UK study\" \/>Researchers find restrictive policies do not lower overall time children spend on their phones throughout the day<br \/>\nBanning smartphones at school does not improve academic grades and children\u2019s wellbeing, a study suggests.<br \/>\nResearchers from the University of Birmingham did find that spending longer on phones and social media in general was linked to lower grades, poor sleep, disruptive behaviour and a lack of exercise. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers find restrictive policies do not lower overall time children spend on their phones throughout the day Banning smartphones at school does not improve academic grades and children\u2019s wellbeing, a study suggests. Researchers from the University of Birmingham did find that spending longer on phones and social media in general was linked to lower grades, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/05\/school-ban-on-phones-does-not-improve-grades-or-health-says-uk-study\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">School ban on phones does not improve grades or health, says UK study<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":17632,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17631"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}