District proposal to track students with radio frequency identification system sparks controversy
If a high schooler in San Antonio skips school for a burger at Bob's Big Boy, Big Brother just may be watching, the Huffington Post reports.
Safety & Security
Make kids ‘bullyproof’ by teaching social and emotional skills
Teaching kids to become "bullyproof" is all the rage. Books, videos and websites promise to show parents how to protect their kids from being bullied; school districts are…
Student barred from school bus after reporting bullying of special needs student
Stormy Rich, an 18-year-old Florida student, says she was punished after reporting bullying of a special needs student on a school bus, and standing up to those bullies…
Miss. district agrees to stop handcuffing students
Jackson public schools will no longer handcuff students to poles or other objects and will train staff at its alternative school on better methods of discipline, the Associated…
Harassment, bullying and free expression: Guidelines for public schools seek middle ground
When Sally tells Jimmy that he's going to hell for believing in a false religion, is that Sally exercising her First Amendment right to free expression, or is…
Schools struggle to address video recording in classrooms
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Opinion: Angry mom deserved taser shocks at son’s school
Here's a classic case of she-had-it-coming: Michele Lee Eaton, 39, got shocked by Taser twice at her son's Guntown, Miss, middle school, says Reuters.
New Jersey town bans texting while walking
As a slew of U.S. states have passed laws to ban texting while driving, one New Jersey town upped the ante with its texting-while-walking ban. Pedestrians in Fort…
What Romney should have said to schoolchildren about his ‘prank’ and bullying
My colleague Jason Horowitz wrote in this Washington Post story about how Mitt Romney, when he was a senior at an elite private high school in Michigan, led…
Teacher suspended for making students wear dog collar as punishment
Laurie Bailey-Cutkomp, a 47-year-old Zephyrhills High School science teacher in Zephyrhills, Fla., is under fire after photos of her students wearing dog collars as punishment for bad behavior…
Court dismisses two counts, upholds others, in professor’s child-porn viewing case
Viewing child pornography online isn't a crime, the New York Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday in the case of a college professor whose work computer was found to…
Young, gay student who fired stun gun at school expelled
Darnell “Dynasty” Young, the 17-year-old openly gay student who was suspended for bringing a stun gun to school to ward off bullies, has now been expelled, MSNBC reports.
Watch: High school principal accused of ‘spying’ on Facebook, resigns
It's a cardinal rule among educators: Interacting with students on social media, if it is allowed, requires caution and the same amount of professionalism that would be conducted…
Parents of boy forcibly tattooed sue school district
The parents of a New Hampshire teenager who was assaulted and forcibly tattooed on the buttocks by four older students during school hours have filed suit against the…
Gay student faces expulsion for firing stun gun to fend off bullies
Darnell "Dynasty" Young, a 17-year-old gay student at Arsenal Tech High School in Indianapolis, Ind., is facing possible expulsion after he fired a stun gun at bullies he…
Young student urinates on class MacBooks, costs school $36,000
An 11-year-old male student at Upper Allen Elementary School in Mechanicsburg, Pa., is facing serious consequences after he urinated on the school's MacBook computers, causing around $36,000 in…
School cyberbullying victims fight back in lawsuits
When a Georgia middle school student reported to police and school officials that she had been bullied on Facebook, they told her there was not much they could…
Students speak out against arrests in public schools
A coalition of students protested outside Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel's office Tuesday, calling on the city to implement new disciplinary policies that would reduce the arrest rate among…
Content-rights flap muddies debut of Google’s cloud storage
Google is already facing spasms of suspicion and confusion as it tries to persuade educators, students, and others to entrust their personal documents, photos, and other digital content…
How to expand students’ ed-tech access—and stay out of court
Finding the right balance between keeping students safe and letting them explore their world digitally was the focus of an April 21 session during the National School Boards…
Free tool reveals all about Facebook app privacy
For those bewildered by the privacy issues surrounding Facebook apps - and let's face it, who isn't? - there's a new FCC-endorsed service available to rate them, TGDaily…
Web could vanish for hordes of people in July, FBI warns
The FBI is warning that hundreds of thousands of people could lose their internet connections come July, unless they take steps to diagnose and disinfect their computers, CNET…
Watch: Boy brings BB gun to elementary school to scare bullies
Earlier this week Lisa Pfalzgraf, principal of Elmwood Place Elementary School in Cincinnati, Ohio called the police on a 10-year-old boy after he brought a BB gun to…
Emergency notification in jeopardy if students tune out digital signage
If a digital sign can’t convey a message in seven seconds, the technology runs the risk of blending into the background, one expert says—and during campus emergencies, that…
Middle school student nets $4.2 million settlement for bully’s paralyzing punch
A New Jersey school district has agreed to pay $4.2 million to settle a lawsuit by a middle school student who was paralyzed when a known bully punched…
Teachers texting students: Should schools ban or encourage?
This year has already seen a slew of controversial incidents involving teachers texting students. Earlier this month, Pennsylvania teacher Timothy Moll was accused of texting one of his…
With mobile device management, schools can rest easier
When you’re handing out 27,000 iPads and iPod Touches to your students and staff, having an easy way to manage all the devices—pushing out just the right applications…
Suspensions at California high school spark fiery free speech battle
Civil rights groups recently intervened in a free-speech controversy at the San Francisco Unified School District after a school suspended three high school seniors and banned them from…
This group of 8 black college students has been frisked 92 times by the NYPD
Sure, it's an informal survey, but a New York Times reporter's finding that eight black college students he spoke to have been stopped by police a collective 92…
Report tracks sexual assaults on high school-age girls
According to recent national research conducted by the U.S. Centers of Disease Control and Prevention, 10.5 percent of all high school-age girls have been sexually assaulted, the Huffington…
Teens still texting while driving, survey says
The high-profile campaign against distracted driving, especially among young motorists, has seeped deep into the national culture: April is Distracted Driving Month, and the April 10 season premiere…
States struggle with appropriate cyber bullying laws
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Tornadoes wreak havoc on Texas school communities
Tornadoes raked the Dallas area Tuesday, crumbling a wing of a nursing home, peeling roofs from dozens of homes and spiraling big-rig trailers into the air like footballs.…
Buying fake IDs online put teens’ information at risk
It seemed like a harmless way to score some beer. But prosecutors say the Saratoga Springs, N.Y., teens who handed over their names, birth dates, pictures, and signatures…
Cell phones complicate school crisis response
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LAUSD sex abuse cases prompt new district policy about parental notifications
On Thursday, the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) announced a new mandate that schools notify all parents within 72 hours if a teacher is removed from a…
Movie review: ‘Bully’ packs an emotional wallop
If you feel like you've already read quite a bit about the documentary "Bully," you have. But that still won't prepare you for the experience of seeing it.
School district, ACLU reach settlement in filtering lawsuit
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) said on March 28 that it has settled a lawsuit with a central Missouri school district whose internet filtering software was blocking…
Tighter security for SAT, ACT in wake of cheating
The millions of students who take the SAT or ACT each year will have to submit photos of themselves when they sign up for the college entrance exams,…
Developing sound social media policies for schools
In a world where three out of four teens have a cell phone, and roughly the same number have used ... Read more