Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Yondr makes the zippered pouches that people in school and at concerts use to store their phones. School phone bans are becoming ...

Many schools are making an effort to go phone-free after multiple studies found kids learn better, face less bullying and interact more with other students when they’re not distracted by the devices ...

Schools are finding their expensive phone-lock pouches, designed to enforce phone-free learning, are being easily defeated by students using simple tricks like magnets or sharp knocks. While intended ...

Starting Thursday, all city public high schools will join middle schools in requiring students to store away their phones in magnetically sealed devices — as New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) rolls out ...

Yondr pouches are working so far in freeing up classroom time for teaching, learning, and discussion instead of phone-scrolling distraction. Three assistant superintendents and a principal offered ...

Jefferson County Public Schools (JCPS) is using Yondr pouches to limit student cell phone use, reportedly improving engagement. The district faces a $188 million deficit, yet the Yondr pouch program ...

Since readjusting its cell phone policy to include the use of Yondr pouches at Alton School District’s high school and middle school, Superintendent Elaine Kane has noticed an improvement in student ...

Beaumont ISD will be hosting two Yondr parent information sessions. At 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, Beaumont ISD will be hosting sessions to inform families about the district's new Yondr phone-free schools ...

COLUMBUS, Ga. (WRBL) — Next school year, Georgia’s Distraction Free Act might prohibit students from kindergarten to eighth grade from using their devices in school. One local high school has already ...

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