Schools also need clear backing to go phone-free — classrooms, hallways, and lunchrooms — because attention is a learning tool, not a renewable resource

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I am just back from a trip to Australia, where the country is still mourning the tragedy at Bondi Beach that made international news after 15 innocent people were killed by terrorists. Amid that grief, something else happened — quieter, but with long-term consequences: Australia began enforcing a