A national education authority can extend device bans beyond lessons to the entire school day—covering recess, co‑curricular activities and supplemental classes—and include smartwatches as prohibited devices. Singapore will require phones to be stored (lockers or bags) and will move school‑issued device sleep defaults earlier, citing wellbeing gains from prior primary‑school trials.
— If adopted widely, full‑day bans change how societies balance child autonomy, school authority, and digital access, and will become a real‑world experiment about whether hard restrictions improve wellbeing, learning, or social interaction.
Robert VerBruggen
2026.05.11
90% relevant
The article reviews evidence about banning phones in schools and thus directly bears on the existing idea that whole‑day device bans are an effective school policy; it connects district and state policy experiments (school rules, pilot programs) and outcome measures (test scores, discipline incidents, attendance) to that claim.
Arnold Kling
2026.05.10
60% relevant
Tyler Cowen's linked comment contests the magnitude of educational gains from banning phones and frames the policy as partly about teacher respect, engaging the existing discourse on full‑day device bans in schools.
EditorDavid
2026.05.09
85% relevant
The article reports that at least a dozen states have introduced policies limiting in‑school screen time, opt‑outs, or other constraints — concrete actions that map directly onto the idea of schools/states banning or severely restricting device use during the school day.
Tyler Cowen
2026.05.05
90% relevant
This NBER working paper empirically evaluates a concrete implementation of school device restriction (lockable phone pouches) using GPS pings, sales records and administrative data, directly testing the claim that banning phones improves learning and therefore maps onto the 'Full‑Day School Device Bans' idea.
BeauHD
2026.04.20
90% relevant
This article reports the UK government will table an amendment to make existing guidance on banning mobile phones in schools statutory; that is precisely the policy class captured by the 'Full‑Day School Device Bans' idea (actor: UK government; instrument: amendment to the children’s wellbeing and schools bill).
BeauHD
2026.04.01
90% relevant
Sweden's plan for a countrywide cellphone ban in schools directly matches the existing idea about full‑day device prohibitions; the article cites a national policy, large textbook and book purchases (education ministry allocations of $83M and $54M), and an explicit government pivot away from classroom screens that exemplify this trend.
BeauHD
2026.03.20
90% relevant
The article reports on Oregon's statewide phone ban implemented by executive order and on‑the‑ground effects at Estacada High (teacher praise, student reports of better discourse, plus practical problems like blocked resources and scheduling), directly exemplifying the policy and outcomes the existing idea summarizes.
msmash
2025.12.01
100% relevant
Singapore Ministry of Education announced the policy extending a ban to all secondary‑school hours starting January 2026 and adjusting school‑issued device sleep times.