There are more eyes on students today than just a teacher’s watchful gaze. Thousands of school districts use monitoring software that can track students’ online searches, scan their emails, and in ...

The Wake County school system is expanding the use of digital surveillance software to spy on students’ computers for signs of suicide, self-harm, threats of violence and other dangerous behavior. By ...

A student works on a computer at a K-12 school in Provo, Utah. School districts across the country have adopted computer monitoring platforms that analyze what students are doing on school-issued ...

The Lawrence school district offices building, located at 110 McDonald Dr., is pictured in May 2025. The Lawrence school district has stopped using Gaggle software on its devices, and attorneys for ...

School closures have been tough on kids since the start of the pandemic, and suicides and mental health-related hospital visits are on the rise. So, in an effort to improve student safety, some school ...

Although the Lawrence school district has stopped using Gaggle, it is now using a different student monitoring software — and its use was not voted on by board members or mentioned in court documents ...

A new report from the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) found that computer technology — like artificial intelligence (AI), content filtering, and student activity monitoring — poses risks to ...

A monitoring company that thousands of schools used during remote and hybrid learning to ensure students were on task may have inadvertently exposed millions of kids to hackers online, according to a ...

Tennessee 13-year-old arrested after AI flagged online joke School surveillance tools like Gaggle and Lightspeed under scrutiny Critics warn tech can criminalize students for careless words Lawsuits ...

Schools often use AI to detect students at risk of self-harm, violence against others, and bullying. Some worry these programs violate students' privacy and freedom to use the internet, WSJ reports.

Whether it’s a research project on the Civil War or a science experiment on volcano eruptions, students in the Colonial School District near Wilmington, Delaware, can look up just about anything on ...