World Magazine:
Study: Cellphones in schools hurt low-performing students
1 June 2015
Last month, a study from the London School of Economics for the first time provided hard evidence that banning phones in school boosts student achievement. ''Mobile phones now are a ubiquitous part of a teenager's life'', said Richard Murphy, an economist with the London School of Economics' Center for Economic Performance and one of the co-authors of the study. ''Practically all teenagers now own a mobile phone, but there's been no academic study looking at what impacts this new technology has had on students' academic attainment.''
This article was published by World Magazine on June 1, 2015
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Related publications
'Ill Communication: Technology, Distraction and Student Performance', Louis-Philippe Beland and Richard Murphy, Centre for Economic Performance Discussion Paper No.1350, May 2015
Related links
Richard Murphy webpage
Education and Skills Programme webpage
Richard Murphy CEP publications webpage