Study finds teenagers in relationships are threatened online or in texts
In another mark of the increasingly digital life of teenagers, more than 25 percent of those who dated said their love interests threatened or harassed them online or…
Safety & Security
Zero tolerance—or zero sense?
A slew of recent high-profile suspensions over perceived threats or weapons infractions has renewed old questions about the wisdom of "zero tolerance" policies.
Ohio mom charged with helping kid in class brawl
The Associated Press reports that a mother is accused of bursting into a high school classroom and helping her teen daughter beat up another student, even holding the…
Summit explores the benefits of social-emotional learning
Last month at Columbia University Teachers College, researchers, school counselors, educators, and others gathered for a summit called “Beyond Bullying: Safe Schools, Successful Students.”
Police thinking outside the box to make kids feel safe
Stunned by the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings in Connecticut, police and school officials in one Colorado county felt they had to do something to reassure students, the…
Actor Steven Seagal to lead Arizona school arms-training event
Controversial Arizona lawman Joe Arpaio, who styles himself as "America's Toughest Sheriff," has enlisted action film star Steven Seagal to lead a training exercise for members of his…
New York City public schools stealthily gave thousands of teens free morning-after pills
Students in New York public schools can frolic in all the unprotected sex they want without fretting over the natural consequences, thanks to the largesse of the Bloomberg…
Fourth grader wins science fair with drug-sniffing dogs, ounce of cocaine
In an early bid for Father of the Year, a Miami police detective allowed his 10-year-old daughter to use three drug-sniffing dogs and an ounce of cocaine for…
Feds: Teacher scammed federal program of hundreds of thousands
A New York City substitute teacher is accused of running a scam through a tutoring service that between 2005 and 2012 billed the government for millions of dollars,…
Op-Ed: I graduated from Sandy Hook, and I’m against arming teachers
I teach in an urban school in South Los Angeles. We have yearly lockdown drills and occasional real lockdowns for police activity in the neighborhood. The kids know…
CPS CEO warns coaches in wake of basketball game shooting tragedy
According to an article from the Chicago Sun-Times , Chicago Public Schools (CPS) CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett has released a statement about the district stance regarding the fatal shooting…
Should gun owners foot the bill for students’ safety?
In the wake of the school shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary, one Florida lawmaker wants to make gun owners foot the bill for students' safety, the Huffington Post…
A unique approach to school security: Bulletproof whiteboards?
What's lighter than a typical whiteboard, will stop multiple rounds of ammunition, and is 2.5 times stronger than Kevlar? According to Hardwire LLC, a company specializing in ballistic…
Mom pays for armed guard at child’s school
And now, a privately funded deputy guarding elementary school kids, the Washington Post reports.
Newly hired armed guard leaves gun unattended in school bathroom
School officials announced last week that they had hired retired county sheriff Clark Arnold to serve as Chatfield's armed security officer, the Huffington Post reports.
‘Catfishing’ the latest challenge to web safety efforts
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WATCH: Students offer solutions to gun violence, school shootings
As part of a series of far-reaching gun control proposals, President Barack Obama recommended Wednesday a federal $150 million "Comprehensive School Safety Program" that would help school districts…
Teens facing charges after threats against school on Facebook
Three Quebec City teens have been charged with planning a shooting at their high school, the Associated Press reports.
Duncan: Hard to teach kids scared of being killed
Too many students worry more about being killed by a gun than learning in the classroom, Education Secretary Arne Duncan said on Jan. 17, as he cautioned that…
Why U.S. Education Department has 27 12-gauge shotguns
Back in 2010, the Office of Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Education purchased 27 new Remington Brand Model 870 police 12-gauge shotguns. Why? Asks the Washington…
Flu fight closes schools
Schools in Grayville, Ill., closed on Monday, and won't reopen until Thursday, after more than 20 percent of the town's elementary through high school kids came down with…
Obama to unveil gun violence, school security measures
President Barack Obama's broad effort to reduce gun violence and boost school security will include proposed bans on military-style assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines, as well as…
Could janitors be one school’s line of defense?
A rural school district in Ohio is drawing attention with its plans to arm a handful of its non-teaching employees with handguns this year—perhaps even janitors.
Everything we know about the hero teachers from the California shooting
As details emerged from Thursday's shooting at Taft High School in Taft, California, the teacher present in the classroom and a classroom supervisor emerged as heroes for successfully…
Report: Most kids who need mental health care don’t get it
Hot off the presses, here's a report from the Government Accountability Office on the state of children's mental health care. It reveals some major problems, the Huffington Post…
Calif. teachers fund moves to divest from firearms
The nation's largest teacher pension fund took the first step Wednesday toward divesting from companies that make guns and high-capacity ammunition magazines that are illegal in California, the…
Hundreds of Texas, Ohio teachers flock to gun training
School teachers in Texas are flocking to free firearms classes and hundreds more in Ohio have signed up for training in the wake of the Connecticut elementary school…
Judge: School can move girl in ID-tracking case
A Texas school district can transfer a student who is citing religious reasons for her refusal to wear a so-called “smart ID” card that is part of an…
Two New Jersey school districts install armed police guards
At least two New Jersey school districts this week put armed police guards at the entrance to public schools in the wake of the Connecticut elementary school massacre,…
Share With 911: Empowering the school community to keep kids safe
Sharewith911 may just be the best solution I've seen for improving school safety, says Christopher Dawson for ZDNet Education.
Watch: Utah teachers get free gun training in response to Newtown shooting
Kasey Hansen, a special education teacher from Salt Lake City, Utah, says she would take a bullet for any of her students, but if faced with a gunman…
Parents hesitant about NRA’s proposal for more guns in schools
The nation's largest gun-rights lobby on Dec. 21 called for the placement of an armed police officer in every school, but parents and educators question how safe such…
Changes in law aim to protect kids’ internet privacy
Aiming to prevent companies from exploiting online information about children under 13, the Obama administration on Dec. 19 imposed sweeping changes in regulations designed to protect a young…
Facebook starts pushing out new privacy settings
Facebook has started dribbling out the latest changes to its everchanging privacy controls, CNET reports. New privacy notifications and menus are now greeting members as they log into…
Texas town allows teachers to carry concealed guns in school
In the tiny Texas town of Harrold, children and their parents don't give much thought to security at the community's lone school—in part because some of the teachers…
Obama to press for policy changes after shooting
President Barack Obama is launching an administration-wide effort to curb gun violence, underscoring the growing political consensus over tightening gun restrictions following the horrific massacre at a Connecticut…
Sandy Hook shooting survivors should be in school, need ‘routine,’ psychologist says
Connecticut school officials' plan to get survivors of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting back together at a new school is exactly the right decision, says a youth…
Developers worried about new rules for phone apps
A cell phone game for kids about U.S. geography, “Stack the States,” gets rave reviews from parents. Its creator, Dan Russell-Pinson, considered making the 99-cent app better by…
The nation heads back to school with new worries about safety
In Boston, the public schools have asked the police to step up visits to elementary schools throughout the day on Monday, The New York Times reports. In Denver,…
After unspeakable tragedy, a search for answers
While church leaders and President Barack Obama prepared to comfort a grieving town Dec. 16, federal agents planned to fan out to dozens of gun stores and shooting…