{"id":2439,"date":"2025-10-22T14:42:58","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T14:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thetoptenwebhosts.com\/?p=2439"},"modified":"2025-10-28T13:41:58","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T13:41:58","slug":"florida-test-scores-rise-attendance-improves-after-cellphone-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thetoptenwebhosts.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/22\/florida-test-scores-rise-attendance-improves-after-cellphone-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida test scores rise, attendance improves after cellphone ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new study finds that Florida test scores\u00a0rose\u00a0and attendance improved after a school\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/education\/5461464-school-cell-phone-bans-students-teachers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">cellphone ban<\/a>, although short-term\u00a0disciplinary\u00a0problems also arose in the state.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nber.org\/papers\/w34388\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The\u00a0study<\/a>, conducted by two researchers from the\u00a0University of Rochester and RAND, a nonprofit research organization, found the positive benefits from a cellphone ban\u00a0don\u2019t\u00a0emerge\u00a0until the second year\u00a0the policy is enacted.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>By Year 2, student test scores\u00a0ticked up, and\u00a0a\u00a0significant\u00a0reduction occurred in\u00a0unexcused absences.\u00a0But in the first year, schools saw\u00a0problems.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe show that the enforcement of cellphone bans in schools led to a significant increase in student suspensions in the short-term, especially among Black students, but disciplinary actions began to dissipate after the first year, potentially suggesting a new steady state after an initial adjustment period,\u201d the authors said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The study is a working draft paper that has not been peer-reviewed yet.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Disciplinary\u00a0proceedings doubled the month after\u00a0a school\u00a0began enforcing a cellphone ban. The increase in suspensions\u00a0lasted\u00a0the rest of the first year,\u00a0although it\u00a0went back to normal in the second year, according to the paper.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Test scores\u00a0went\u00a0up\u00a0by\u00a0two to three percentiles in the second year of the ban. Throughout the first and second year, unexcused absences were reduced\u00a0significantly, which the authors\u00a0say\u00a0likely explains\u00a0the jump in test scores.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOverall, our findings reveal that cellphone bans could improve student outcomes, yet these benefits come at the cost of elevated suspension rates in the short term. The challenge that educators face then is to minimize these short-term adverse effects until a new status quo without cellphones is\u00a0established\u00a0in schools,\u201d the study said.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The study comes as more than half of states have enacted some laws around cellphone bans in schools.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study finds that Florida test scores\u00a0rose\u00a0and attendance improved after a school\u00a0cellphone ban, although&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2441,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetoptenwebhosts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2439"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetoptenwebhosts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetoptenwebhosts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetoptenwebhosts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetoptenwebhosts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2439"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/thetoptenwebhosts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2440,"href":"http:\/\/thetoptenwebhosts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2439\/revisions\/2440"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetoptenwebhosts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetoptenwebhosts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetoptenwebhosts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetoptenwebhosts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}