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NYC teachers say teens can’t read clocks after school mobile phone ban

New York City’s statewide school cellphone ban has exposed an unexpected gap, with teachers saying many teenagers cannot read ...

New York teachers stunned to learn some students can’t read time on old clocks after phone ban comes into play

New York City teachers say the state’s recently implemented cell phone ban in schools has showed that numerous students no ...

When phones disappear, time telling disappears too: How NYC classrooms exposed an unexpected skills gap

New York City’s school smartphone ban has improved focus and movement in classrooms but revealed an unexpected skills gap: many students cannot read analogue clocks. Teachers across the city say ...

New York’s smartphone ban in schools is giving some students a hard time

New York City schools report a surprising consequence of the smartphone ban: many students can't read traditional clocks.
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NYC phone ban reveals some students can't read clocks

Tiana Millen, an assistant principal at Cardozo High School in Queens, said this year’s ban on smartphones revealed that many ...

Clock repairer that started in his garage is one of the few left in the Midlands

What started as a hobby became a full-blown business for Harold MacVittie more than a decade ago. His Chapin clock shop is still ticking.

Inside the eerie Brit ghost town in the jungle where clocks stop at same time & dead bride’s ‘veil’ blankets the village

DEEP in the Atlantic Forest in Brazil lies a British-built railway village where clocks freeze at 11:47, and thick fog ...