Matt Cardy/Getty Images Smartphone bans in the classroom might not be the panacea that governments and school administrations want them to be, according to a recently published study. As first reported by  The New York Times , the National Bureau of Economic Research will publish a study called  The Effects of School Phone Bans: National Evidence From Lockable Phones , which concluded that cellphone bans had "consistently close to zero" effect on test scores. The study  sampled phone location data from more than 40,000 schools from 2019 to 2026 and showed that there was a temporary rise in disciplinary incidents and a short-term drop in student well-being, which was attributed to short-term disruption. However, the study revealed that student well-being improved in later years and disciplinary actions fell in the long term.…