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New York governor to launch bill banning smartphones in schools
(www.theguardian.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
My wife is a teacher in Finland and two cousins are teachers in USA.
Smartphones don't help with education either. Two things can be true. I'm not even sure what you mean by "corralling student attention in the hands of the parents".
That said, I was sarcastically replying to the comment above me which sarcastically suggested old school tape recorders.