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YONDR ANNOUNCEMENT
May 22, 2025
Former UK Schools Minister Sir Nick Gibb has joined Yondr as Strategic Adviser, bringing over a decade of education policy experience to help expand distraction-free learning across the country.
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ON WITH KARA SWISHER
January 16, 2025
Kara and Graham talk about the push to ban phones from schools, the company’s success, and his philosophical take on smartphones, social media and technology. -
HOUSTON CHRONICLE
March 2, 2025
Given the success that a handful of schools and school districts have had with the Yondr solution, lawmakers should feel relatively sure appropriating funding for it won't be in vain.
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WASHINGTON POST
March 17, 2025
“It’s not just about not having your phone….it’s actually about what happens to everybody when everyone is truly there with the people in the room and not somewhere else,” Leader said of the magic of a phone-free party.
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CNN
Cell Phone Distraction Called ‘major Problem’
September 3, 2024
72% of US high school teachers say cell phone distraction is a major problem. More schools are enacting rules or tightening enforcement to keep students off their screens.
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FORBES
Meet Yondr, The Startup Helping Schools Ban Cell Phones
August 29, 2024
Districts across America institute new programs banning smartphones, enabled by lockable pouches from 10-year-old company Yondr.
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THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
What Does It Take to Stop Checking Your Phone? A Bag With a Lock
May 23, 2024
From 25,000 locked phones in 2015 to over 10 million expected users in 2024, Yondr's simple pouch solution is transforming schools, venues and courtrooms.
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VOX
Schools are using Yondr pouches to lock up kids’ cellphones
March 19, 2024
“The results for us were just a game-changer,” Patricia Shipe, president of the Akron Education Association which represents teachers and other educators in the district.
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BBC
Ashford School To Make Students Lock Their Phones In Pouches
December 6, 2023
We have had more students who are saying: 'At last this has been taken seriously. Thank you,' because they recognise that they are at school to learn.
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THE NEW YORK TIMES
With Cameras on Every Phone, Will Broadway’s Nude Scenes Survive?
June 1, 2022
Graham Dugoni, who founded Yondr in 2014, lamented that many people still have difficulty figuring out how to “be a human in the world with a computer in your pocket.”
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THE NEW YORK TIMES
March 21, 2025
“The success in Schoharie has been a showpiece in Gov. Kathy Hochul’s…
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TEXAS TALKS PODCAST
March 20, 2025
“What Yondr helps schools do: it gives some structure to what…
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LOS ANGELES TIMES
February 19, 2025
Superintendent Alberto Carvalho said, “The teachers I’ve spoken with…
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THE TIMES OF LONDON
February 27, 2025
Yondr-commissioned study reveals overwhelming support…
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WAVE LOUISVILLE
March 6, 2025
“I feel like it’s become a part of my daily routine. I’m going to school…
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25 NEWS NOW PEORIA
January 10, 2025
Peoria Public Schools said the district is seeing promising results in…
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THE ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION
January 10, 2025
Students have reported better-behaved classrooms and feeling…
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CBS NEWS
January 23, 2025
New York school enacts cellphone ban as state considers policy…
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CBS NEWS
December 5, 2024
Something feels different inside Brockton High School…
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NPR
December 3, 2024
Dugoni says more than 2 million students use pouches in America…
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CNN
September 3, 2024
As 72% of US high school teachers say cell phone distraction is ...
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THE SEATTLE TIMES
November 12, 2024
There wasn’t a phone in sight. The middle school, which has about…
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THE SCOTTISH SUN
August 29, 2024
It ws so loud, former teacher says phone ban..
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FORBES
August 9, 2024
Meet The Startup Helping Schools Ban Cell Phones…
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NPR
August 8, 2024
Arkansas school districts on board with ‘phone-free’ pilot program…
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THE WASHINGTON POST
August 27, 2024
Cellphone bans spread in schools amid growing mental health worries…
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AXIOS
March 22, 2024
The new school essential: A Yondr cellphone pouch…
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THE WASHINGTON POST
March 1, 2024
How a Connecticut middle school won the battle against cellphones…
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KWTX
February 27, 2024
New cell phone policy improves grades, test results at La Vega High…
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WALL STREET JOURNAL
May 23, 2024
hat Does It Take to Stop Checking Your Phone?
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CBS MORNING
August 3, 2024
The growing “no phone” movement transformed a Newburgh, NY…
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THE TIMES
April 9, 2024
The Times view on phones in schools: Hang up…
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THE SPECTATOR
March 14, 2024
The extraordinary results of one school’s ban on smartphones…
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BBC
December 6, 2023
Ashford school to make students lock their phones in pouches…
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THE 74 + YAHOO NEWS
December 13, 2023
Sales Skyrocket for Phone Pouch Company as In-School Bans Spread…
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THE ATLANTIC
June 6, 2023
Get Phones Out of Schools Now. They impede learning…
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FOX 17
December 13, 2023
Garth Brooks has a no-phone policy at his new Vegas show…
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WASHINGTON POST
May 9, 2023
Students can’t get off their phones. Schools have had enough…
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THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD
February 2, 2023
NSW high schools ramp up…
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THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER
September 18, 2022
To ban or not to ban the cell phone?
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NEW YORK TIMES
January 3, 2024
With Cameras on Every Phone, Will Broadway’s Nude Scenes Survive?
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THE IRISH TIMES
April 12, 2022
A school-smart phone policy? ‘They’re talking to each other more’…
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VARIETY
April 11, 2022
ondr Believes Concertgoers Are Learning to Love…
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LA TIMES
March 10, 2024
The great concert debate: Are cellphones…
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WSJ
March 10, 2020
Phone Locks in a Time of Cancel Culture…
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CNN
February 6, 2020
The agony and ecstasy of being forced to give up our phones…
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THE GUARDIAN
August 28, 2019
Teenage hangups: the drastic plans to keep high schoolers off their…
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ROLLING STONE
February 28, 2018
Artists to Fans: Put Your Phones Away!
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WASHINGTON POST
February 5, 2018
This simple solution to smartphone addiction is now used in over 600…
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NYTIMES
October 15, 2016
Your Phone’s on Lockdown. Enjoy the Show…