Attention spans have dropped by two-thirds in the past 20 years. Here’s how to reclaim yours

If you’re just a few words into this story, but already feeling the urge to click or swipe or begin some other activity altogether, I won’t take it personally. Attention spans among humans have reduced dramatically in the past several years. Several school districts around the country are trying to reclaim that by instituting bans on cell phones in classrooms—and some of those programs are bearing fruit.  Two years after phones were banned in an unnamed large urban Florida scho...