News Debate: Cell Phone Scramble

What is the mobile technology policy at Freeport High School in Portland, Maine?

• Students are encouraged to bring their own smart phones to class.
• Students aer required to turn off cell phones during  school hours.
• Students are allowed to use electronic tablests but not smart phones.
• Students aer not allowed to bring mobile technology into the school.

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What is one argument against relaxing cell phone policies?

• Cell phones may help reduce cyberbyllying problems.
• Most teens with cell phones don't send texts during class.
• Stucents rely on cell phones to keep in touch with parents.
• Cell phones allow students to cheat during exams.

What can you most likely conclude after reading the passage?

• Most students agree with the pokicy to ban cell phones from school
• Schools that ban cell phones provide more opportunities for learning.
• People have mixed opinions about the use of cell phones in school.
• If schools relax their cell phone policies, more teachers will start texting.

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#4 In that sentence, the word incorporate means

• to eliminate
• to blend
• to improve
• to study

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The primary purpose of this passage is to

• explain why New Manchester High School relaxed its cell phone policy
• present both sides of a debate aobut school cell phone policies
• describe how personal technology devices enchance education
• persurade high school students to stop using cell phones at school

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How many students have sent texts during class according to the 2010 study by the Pew Reseach Center?

• thriteen
• sixty-four
• eight
• 2010

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How would Steven Hancock, and administrator at Princeton Day,  most likely feel if his school relaxed its cell phone policy?
How do you know?

• elated because cell phones "impede students engagement and learning"
• ambiguous because there are "both good and bad qualities to cell phones"
• somber because "books, paper and pencil in the learning environment are becoming obsolete"
• displeased, since he thinks cell phones have "addictive qualities that will impede studnet engagement and learning."

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____more kids than ever carry cell phones these days, schools have to make some tough decisions about mobile technology policies.

• First
• But
• Because
• Otherwise

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Based on #9:
Who?

• eighth graders
• Grace Hurley
• parents
• schools

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Based on #9 
What?

• Parents able to contact students during school
• Parents should be able to contact schools during the day
• Thinks students should not be able to carry cell phones during school
• Thinks studnets should be able to carry cell phones in school