Harvard-Westlake blocks TikTok and Clash Royale on student phones. How’s that going down?

Students at the Studio City high school can still bring phones to school, but must use an app blocking distracting games and ...

Chatham County schools see improvements after new locked cellphone policy

At the start of class, students at Seaforth High School have a routine. Before they even enter the door, they have to lock up their phones in a Yondr Pouch, a cellphone ...

Tuscaloosa City Schools students' phones to be locked in Yondr pouches, but what are they?

Most Tuscaloosa City Schools students won't have access to cell phones during the school day this year thanks to Yondr ...
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Schools across U.S. turn to a locked magnetic pouch as a cellphone ban solution. Here's what to know.

Carey Gallagher began her senior year at Yonkers Middle High School in New York this week alongside 1,438 students, now all required to place their cellphones in a locked magnetic pouch. Yonkers ...
The Telegraph

Alton schools require Yondr pouches for phones, cite better behavior

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 ...
NBC Los Angeles

Schools spend millions on pouches to keep phones out of students' hands

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 ...
The Daily Princetonian

Firestone offers phone jails to save students from themselves

You’ve been at that problem set for hours. You have a nearly-completed draft of your philosophy paper. You have almost all of those French conjugations memorized for tomorrow’s quiz. You deserve a ...
AOL

Yondr's CEO, who makes cellphone pouches for schools and concerts, uses only a flip phone — and stays off social media

Yondr makes the zippered pouches that people in school and at concerts use to store their phones. School phone bans are becoming more popular, including in New York and Los Angeles. Its CEO says he ...
Citizen's Voice

Wyoming Area superintendent, students, praise phone-pouch policy

EXETER — Students and administrators at Wyoming Area School District are attesting to the benefits of a new policy that locks students’ phones for the duration of the school day. Wyoming Area ...