Reema Saleh writes: “Since fall 2024, each school day at Grant High School in Portland, Oregon, has started the same way: Roughly 2,100 students line up to place their phones in gray and green Yondr pouches as they enter the building. There’s been one unexpected outcome of the school’s effort to limit phone use on campus: More students are spending time in the library, where they’re browsing the collection or hanging out during free periods, says teacher-librarian Paige Battle.”