New Zealand to ban cellphones in schools as literacy rates drops to new low: “we want our kids to learn and we want our teachers to teach”
2023-12-06
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WELLINGTON — Cellphones will be banned in schools across New Zealand, conservative Prime Minister Christopher Luxon said Friday (Dec 1), as his fledgling government looks to turn around the country’s plummeting literacy rates.
New Zealand’s schools once boasted some of the world’s best literacy scores, but levels of reading and writing have declined to the point that