The Daily Dot:
Spring Valley proves there's one device that should never be banned from schools
29 October 2015
The primary focus of this incident is on police brutality and the disproportionate levels of school discipline that put young Black girls across America at risk every day. But those who explain the incident away, such as The View co-host Raven-Symone, say that the incident wouldn't have happened if the student didn't bring her phone to school and hadn't used it in class. Earlier this year, report after report praised the idea of banning cell phones in schools, citing a study that a strict cell phone policy improves students' test scores. According to research published by the London School of Economics, which looked at how cell phone policy changes since 2001 have affected more than 130,000 pupils in schools across England, learning environments without cell phones were tied to a 6.4 percent increase in national exam scores - on average. For so-called ''underachieving'' students, specifically, scores rose by 14 percent.
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Related Publications
In brief ... Phone home: should mobiles be banned in schools?, Louis-Philippe Beland and Richard Murphy, CentrePiece Volume 20, Issue 1, Summer 2015
'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