Daycare centers in Sweden have started using GPS systems and other electronic tracking devices to keep tabs on children during excursions—a practice that has raised ethical and practical…
Jamey Rodemeyer, a 14-year-old boy from Williamsville, NY, took his life Sunday after what his parents claim was years of bullying because of struggles with his sexuality, the…
A 9Wants To Know Investigation into YouTube videos of Thornton High School students fighting hit harder than expected Monday after 9News uncovered similar fighting clips from Cherry Creek,…
Every day, 160,000 kids miss school because they're afraid of being bullied, according to the National Crime Prevention Council, reports the Huffington Post.
Some California schools are turning away middle and high school students who have not received a required whooping cough vaccine while others are defying a law passed last…
According to the District of Columbia’s Office of the State Superintendent of Education (OSSE), D.C. public schools are planning to test students on their knowledge of human sexuality,…
Bullying is, obviously, a problem in our nation’s schools. Sometimes it leads to suicides or lawsuits, and that ends up making headlines. Bullying can also coast under the…
As Diana Hess learned that airplanes had slammed into the twin towers in lower Manhattan on Sept. 11, 2001, her first instinct was to cancel her classes for…
Following the shootings at Columbine High School in 1999 and the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the East Coast, U.S. Homeland Security determined that schools and hospitals…
Under a new state law in New Jersey, lunch-line bullies in the East Hanover schools can be reported to the police by their classmates this fall through anonymous…
The attorney for a family suing Chicago Public Schools over the alleged handcuffing of a first-grader in 2010 said Tuesday that the boy was among several 6- and…
I get deeply angry over each untimely death--because this violence does not have to happen, says Gary Marvin Davison, former researcher and writer for the 2004 and 2008…
PBIS stands for Positive Behavioral Intervention and Support, a disciplinary framework for schools to help prevent bullying that is, in my experience, heavy on jargon but light on…
Backpack. Notebooks. Whooping cough shot? If you haven't worried about back-to-school shots since your tween or teen was entering kindergarten, better put vaccines on the to-do list, the…
A lawsuit filed against the Republic School District alleges school officials failed to protect a middle school girl from a male classmate who harassed her, sexually assaulted her,…
The new chief of the Chicago public schools, Jean-Claude Brizard, suggested recently that teachers visit the homes of their students, says Jay Matthews, columnist for the Washington Post.