A study of university students is the first evidence to refute the supposed link between depression and the amount of time spent on Facebook and other social media…
From clearing their browser history to creating private eMail addresses, teens are increasingly leveraging their tech-savvy skills to hide their online activities from their parents, reports the Great…
Having trouble getting online July 9? You might be one of thousands across the U.S. who waited too long or simply didn't believe the warnings, and your internet…
Students who send explicit photos on their cell phones wouldn’t have to be branded as sex offenders, if a new curriculum developed by Yahoo! Inc. catches on.
Beginning this week, school districts in Arizona are required to teach cyberbullying awareness and monitor online chats and social media in schools, in keeping with a bolstered Children’s…
The upstate New York school bus monitor who was bullied by four seventh-graders says she's satisfied that they're being suspended for a year, the Associated Press reports.
As the FTC tries to protect consumers’ online privacy—by publishing a report targeting the data-collection practices of mobile apps for kids, for instance, and launching a voluntary Do…
Tablets—with their lightweight portability and interactive touch screens—have been hailed as the next “must have” as schools move toward mobile computing. But questions linger: How much network access…
The bullying that bus monitor Karen Klein endured on a ride home from an upstate New York school was painful and egregious, but also shows how student harassment…
A Texas teacher will lose her job after ordering more than 20 kindergartners to line up and hit a classmate accused of being a bully, a district spokesman…
While schools are right in teaching students about the dangers that exist online, a new website aims to promote the benefits of internet use—as well as bridge the…
Former governor Mitt Romney’s administration in 2006 blocked publication of a state antibullying guide for Massachusetts public schools because officials objected to use of the terms “bisexual’’ and…
A new federal study shows dramatic improvement in the driving habits of U.S. high school students, but texting by teenagers behind the wheel is a concern, the Centers…
More than half of U.S. students in their last year before college admit they text or eMail while driving—the first federal statistics on how common the dangerous habit…
A Massachusetts teenager was sentenced Wednesday to two years in prison and loss of his license for 15 years for causing a fatal crash by texting while driving,…
The nation's school districts are turning up their noses at "pink slime," the beef product that caused a public uproar earlier this year, the Associated Press reports.
Sports concussions have captured public attention in recent years, with high-profile NFL players and other professional athletes stepping forward about the long-term effects of sports-related head injuries. Now,…