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Are Smartphones Really Making Kids Dumb?

Even students not using cell phones in class suffer poorer academic performance when peers use them, a study shows.

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Are Smartphones Really Making Kids Dumb?
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By Ross Muscato
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December 16, 2023Updated:December 19, 2023

After decades in the classroom, award-winning teacher Steve Gardiner, of Billings, Montana, became acutely aware of a new problem making it difficult for his high-school students to learn.

Ironically, it was the so-called smartphone.

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