(The Center Square) – A new study shows “significant improvements” in student test scores in concert with banning cellphones in Florida schools.

The gains came in the second year of the ban, according to the study by the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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“The findings suggest that cellphone bans in schools significantly reduce student unexcused absences, an effect that may explain a large fraction of the test score gains,” says a summary of the study.

School systems nationwide have increased imposing cellphone bans. Thirty states have either passed statewide bans on cellp

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