Tag: cellphones

  • School Cellphone Ban Study Finds Mixed Results

    Two-thirds of states passed laws restricting cellphones in schools over three years, and the largest study of them so far, from the National Bureau of Economic Research, finds strict bans that keep devices in locked pouches all day did meaningfully cut student phone use. Test scores have not risen on average, and at first the…

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  • The Forgotten War on Beepers – Back when pagers were ruining the youth.

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  • Downloading Horn "tones"

    Schwartz gave a great example of how this may work in practice. At a meeting at an Auto corporation, discussions began around the mobile phone ringtone phenomena, and a younger person at the meeting suggested the possibility of downloading a car horn tone to the car much in the same way. After the immediate laughter…

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