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School ban on mobile phones helping pupils

18 May 2016

Research for the Centre for Economic Performance at the LSE examines the impact of mobile phone bans on pupils' academic achievement in subsequent years. The researchers, Louis Philippe Beland at Louisiana State University, and Richard Murphy at the University of Texas at Austin, surveyed schools in Birmingham, Leicester, London and Manchester about their mobile phone policies since 2001 and combined it with results data from externally marked national exams.

This article was published online by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) on May 18, 2016
Link to article here

This article was originally published in the ESRC's Britain in 2016 magazine. See here

Related publications
In brief... Phone home: should mobiles be banned in schools?, Louis-Philippe Beland and Richard Murphy. Article in CentrePiece Volume 20, Issue 1, Summer 2015
Ill Communication: Technology, Distraction & 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

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