Advocates, Technologists to U.S. Secretary of Education: Cell Phones Are a K-12 Crisis

"Phones are polluting our schools. They sabotage the teaching and learning processes," said Lisa Cline of the Screen Time Action Network at Fairplay for Kids, who spear-headed the effort. "We know empirically that they are distracting — by design — so it's not a fair fight. How can we expect kids to learn and teachers to teach when there are concerts, movies, parties, cyberbullies, shopping malls, and drug dealers in their pockets."…

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