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Professor Louis-Phillippe Beland has been quoted in multiple articles this week regarding his research on phones in schools:

The Scientific American article titled Do Phone Bans Help Students Perform Better in School? and the Globe and Mail article titled On the first day of school, Canada’s new student cellphone bans will face a crucial test.

Here are a couple of quotes from the Scientific American article:

“Anything that limits access to phones is a positive”, says Louis-Philippe Beland, an associate professor of economics at �Ӱ�ԭ�� University in Ontario and co-author of  on the academic impact of smartphone access.

“We found that banning mobile phones in schools increases student performance, especially for low-achieving students. There was no negative impact on high-achieving students,” Beland adds.

Professor Beland’s research was cited in the Financial Times article Pressure to ban mobile phones in America’s schools intensifies.

To read the Scientific American article, click . The and articles are behind a paywall but can be accessed with subscriptions.