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Norway's school cellphone ban boosts student grades and health: A model for US schools?

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Many students in Norway are seeing better grades and improved health thanks to a cell phone ban in schools.

FILE - In this March 13, 2014 file photo, Hartselle High School students Lissa Blagburn and Brantlee Wright use an iPhone as they work on a networked lesson in Spanish class in Hartselle, Ala.

"When they come, they lock in their mobiles and when they leave, they can bring it," explained Norway's prime minister, Jonas Gahr Støre, duringThey say that, you know, we start to play in the breaks. The girls say, you know, we take a shower after the gym, we are not afraid anymore to be photographed, and there’s a completely different social interaction.

 

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