The most consequential bipartisan accomplishment of this decade was hatched in NYU faculty housing and is being fulfilled in conservative and liberal state capitals alike. The legislative victory at hand? Banning phones in classrooms.
Until now, it has barely registered amid the tribal trolling that passes for a national political dialogue in the Age of Trump. But as the school year gets fully underway across the country this week, more parents may be able to identify Jonathan Haidt, or at least his groundbreaking book on the risk of children’s access to smartphones, than they can recognize their own member of Congress.
Go ahead, tell me another issue that has cracked the red-blue divide like Haidt’s crusade against smartphones in “The Anxious Generation” or name another book that has so quickly led to far-reaching reforms, such as banning phones in schools.
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