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I'm your host, Sean McDowell.

I'm your co-host, Scott Ray.

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brought to by Talbot School Theology Biola University. Scott, this first story, both of us tagged

separately, so I think we both want to weigh in here, and I think it's really significant.

Because over the past two or three years, we've seen a number of schools, state authority down, banning smartphones

during school time. Well, according to the New York Times, U.S. News and World Report,

there's a new large study out that is, that let's just say has mixed results about how

effective they are.

So pulling from this New York Times piece, they say banning cell phones was supposed to

improve many of the problems, alien American education, distraction, bullying, declining test scores,

and absenteeism.

The ADA attracted rare bipartisan support over the past three years.

Two-thirds of states passed laws restricting cell phones in public schools.

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