Leaders eye school safety plans after Connecticut attack
The mass killing inside a Connecticut elementary school has educators across the country reviewing their school security measures, reassuring parents, and asking, "What if?"
Safety & Security
Could Sandy Hook shooting be a gun-control tipping point?
The question surfaces each time a mass murder unfolds, especially at a school: Will this one change the political calculus in Washington, D.C., against tougher gun control?
School safety resources from the eSN archives
In the aftermath of the terrible tragedy in Newtown, Conn., that claimed the lives of 20 students and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School, school leaders are…
NYC teachers’ fund pledges $1 billion in Sandy aid
A pension fund for city teachers is pledging $1 billion in new investments toward repairing roads and bridges damaged by Superstorm Sandy and other infrastructure projects, the Associated…
Feds investigating makers of cell-phone apps for kids
The government is investigating whether software companies that make cell phone apps have violated the privacy rights of children by quietly collecting personal information from mobile devices and…
Watch: Are schools to blame for America’s obesity epidemic?
To borrow a line from Kermit the frog, it's not easy being green -- or, eating green, the Huffington Post reports.
School encourages homophobic humiliation as student punishment
Two Arizona high school students who were caught fighting faced a controversial punishment concocted by their principal: Either endure a suspension, or sit in the school courtyard holding…
iPad app allows students to report bullying
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N.J. school custodian accused of hiding spy cameras
A southern New Jersey high school custodian was arrested Nov. 28 and accused of using eight small cameras he had hidden around the school to secretly film students…
Lawsuit targets ‘locator’ chips in Texas student IDs
To 15-year-old Andrea Hernandez, the tracking microchip embedded in her student ID card is a "mark of the beast," sacrilege to her Christian faith—not to mention how it…
Educator aided others at cheating, U.S. charges
Federal prosecutors in Memphis are investigating an educator who they say ran a test cheating ring in three Southern states for teachers and prospective teachers who wanted to…
Survey: School web filtering can impede learning
More and more students are bringing personal mobile devices to school, but a new survey from the American Association of School Librarians (AASL) finds that content filtering often…
eSchool Media to stream Iowa Bullying Prevention Summit live
eSchool Media, in partnership with EduVision by JDL Horizons, will be streaming live video coverage of the Iowa Governor’s Bullying Prevention Summit on Nov. 27.
Study: Young students hiding intelligence, talent to avoid bullying
More than 90 percent of British children have been bullied or have witnessed someone being bullied due to their intelligence or talent, a survey by the U.K.-based Anti-Bullying…
Companies resist proposal to strengthen online privacy protections for children
Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Twitter have all objected to portions of a federal effort to strengthen online privacy protections for children, reports The New York Times.
Most NYC schools to open Monday despite challenges
Life is far from normal for 13-year-old Eliran Cohen a week after Superstorm Sandy flooded his family's Staten Island condo, the Associated Press reports.
Why telling bullying victims to ‘just fight back’ doesn’t work
Fall is upon us, and that means the school year is in full swing. Along with the stress of homework assignments and extracurricular activities, unfortunately some students bear…
Senate likely to revisit cyber bill
enate Majority Leader Harry Reid hopes to reintroduce cyber security legislation opposed by business groups once lawmakers return after Tuesday's election, a Senate aide said, adding that a…
Anti-bullying program draws more participants despite boycott call
A record number of schools will participate in a national anti-bullying program, organizers said, despite a conservative Christian group's push for a boycott of the event on the…
North Carolina to outlaw student cyber bullying of teachers
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Teen’s death inspires campaign on dangers of texting while driving
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From guns to schools? Checking Obama and Romney on education
In perhaps the biggest pivot of the presidential debate Tuesday night, President Barack Obama turned a question about gun violence into an answer about education, the Huffington Post…
Do Not Track? Advertisers say ‘Don’t tread on us’
Do Not Track mechanisms are features on browsers — like Mozilla’s Firefox — that give consumers the option of sending out digital signals asking companies to stop collecting…
Parents may be teaching teens to be bullies
When Wisconsin news anchor Jennifer Livingston was called fat by a viewer, she got a firsthand taste of the kind of bullying many high school students confront on…
District to students: Wear tracking ID or ‘There will be consequences’
Weeks after Northside Independent School District in San Antonio rolled out its new "smart" IDs that tracks students' geographic locations, the community is still at odds with the…
Texas test scandal ex-school chief faces 3.5 years
A former superintendent is scheduled to be sentenced Friday for his part in a scheme to fraudulently improve high-stakes school testing scores in the El Paso Independent School…
Teachers, bosses charged in NJ school sex scandal
Six months ago, a student came to Triton High School Principal Catherine DePaul with a disturbing story: She believed another student was involved in a sexual relationship with…
U.S. is tightening web privacy rule to shield young
Federal regulators are about to take the biggest steps in more than a decade to protect children online, the New York Times reports.
Watch: Town rallies around girl pranked for homecoming
A small town in Michigan is rallying behind a teenage girl who had thoughts of killing herself after students at her high school elected her to the homecoming…
Four Calif. high school students arrested over claims of sex abuse during hazing
Four Los Angeles-area high school students have been arrested in an investigation into complaints that varsity soccer players sexually abused younger team members in hazing rituals that victims…
Texas administrators can paddle students of either sex
Like many schools in Texas, “spare the rod and spoil the child” might be considered the motto at Springtown High School, the Washington Post reports.
Morning-after pills available at 13 NYC schools
The New York City Department of Education is making the morning-after-pill available to high school girls at 13 public schools, the Associated Press reports.
North Carolina criminalizes cyberbullying of teachers
In North Carolina, children and teens aren’t the only victims of bullying. On the internet, teachers report being tormented and provoked by students, Mashable reports.
11-year-old wins $20,000 for app that discourages texting while driving
Texting while driving isn't safe, and there have been plenty of examples this year alone of what can happen if you continue to do it, Tecca reports.
Arizona school sued for giving boy sugar, putting in padded box
An Arizona couple is suing their son's former school district for allegedly throwing him in a tiny, windowless room for bad behavior they say was caused by officials…
Technology helps make school bus rides safer
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Facebook and Google help launch online safety platform for teens
Teenagers live online — nearly 58% of teens own smartphones and make up the market’s largest growing sector. However, mobile-crazed teenagers aren’t as unconcerned about online safety as…
CoSN examines BYOD safety and security
A new report from the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN), titled “Safe & Secure? Managing the Risks of Personal Devices,” examines today’s advancing Bring Your Own (BYO) initiatives…
Watch: Texas school ID tracking chips protested by parents and students
Student IDs in a few Texas schools now have tracking chips that will allow teachers and staff to know where students are at all times, the Huffington Post…
Opinion: How a student drug problem will cripple U.S. education
Drugs have permeated our school system. Schools are no longer a place where all students want to go to, nor are they the safe haven that they were…