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Michigan Educators Working to Address Cell Phone Use in Class

Sep 17, 2024 | 11:14 AM

Photo: Mandi Wright ~ USA TODAY NETWORK

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Sept. 17, 2024 ~ Michigan school districts are handling cell phone use in classrooms in many different ways. Guy Gordon, Lloyd Jackson, and Jamie Edmonds talk with Detroit News education reporter Jennifer Chambers about how schools and parents have adapted to the new policies, and how educators fear cell phone use impacts students’ learning.

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