Youth often use cellphones to access social media and social media use is associated with anxiety, depression, and sleep, attention, and learning difficulties. Regulating phone use in schools may help mitigate these effects.

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Eight states have passed statewide policies that ban or restrict cell phone use in schools, 9 state education departments have introduced pilot programs or policy recommendations, and 12 states have introduced phone ban legislation.
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