Guardian:
A tool or a distraction? How UK schools? approaches to mobile phones vary widely
15 December 2017
The debate about access to mobile phones in schools is ongoing in the UK, where more than 90% of teenagers have mobiles. A recent study by the London School of Economics found that in schools where mobiles were banned, the test scores of 16-year-olds improved by 6.4% – the equivalent of adding five days to the school year, economists reckon.