{"id":22983,"date":"2026-05-06T07:37:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T05:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/06\/close-to-zero-impact-us-study-casts-doubt-on-effect-of-phone-ban-in-schools\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T07:37:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T05:37:24","slug":"close-to-zero-impact-us-study-casts-doubt-on-effect-of-phone-ban-in-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/06\/close-to-zero-impact-us-study-casts-doubt-on-effect-of-phone-ban-in-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Close to zero impact\u2019: US study casts doubt on effect of phone ban in schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers say findings are not reason to shy away from restrictions as MPs consider ban in England\u2019s schools<\/p>\n<p>Strict bans on mobile phones in schools have \u201cclose to zero\u201d impact on student learning and show no evidence of improvements in attendance or online bullying, a study has found.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at US universities including Stanford and Duke looked at nearly 1,800 US schools where students\u2019 phones were kept in locked pouches and found little or no differences in outcomes compared with similar schools without strict bans.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2026\/may\/05\/mobile-phone-ban-schools-us-study\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/c63533c46bc7419b46ab5f9695aa935ed5e8e3fd\/236_0_3527_2821\/master\/3527.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=379175732d60637a6da795f8c63a7fae\" title=\"\u2018Close to zero impact\u2019: US study casts doubt on effect of phone ban in schools\" \/>Researchers say findings are not reason to shy away from restrictions as MPs consider ban in England\u2019s schools<br \/>\nStrict bans on mobile phones in schools have \u201cclose to zero\u201d impact on student learning and show no evidence of improvements in attendance or online bullying, a study has found.<br \/>\nResearchers at US universities including Stanford and Duke looked at nearly 1,800 US schools where students\u2019 phones were kept in locked pouches and found little or no differences in outcomes compared with similar schools without strict bans. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers say findings are not reason to shy away from restrictions as MPs consider ban in England\u2019s schools Strict bans on mobile phones in schools have \u201cclose to zero\u201d impact on student learning and show no evidence of improvements in attendance or online bullying, a study has found. Researchers at US universities including Stanford and &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/06\/close-to-zero-impact-us-study-casts-doubt-on-effect-of-phone-ban-in-schools\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018Close to zero impact\u2019: US study casts doubt on effect of phone ban in schools<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":22984,"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\/22983"}],"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=22983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}