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Kids who own cellphones have poorer reading comprehension scores than those who don't, researchers find

School cellphone bans might seem like a good way to improve learning for elementary school children, but new research published in Behavi…

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School cellphone bans might seem like a good way to improve learning for elementary school children, but new research published in Behavioral Sciences shows that simply owning a cellphone correlates with worse reading comprehension. Whether a child brings the phone to school made no difference in reading comprehension, the team of UCLA psychologists and res…

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