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School Violence: A Growing Concern


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24 Sep 2021

School Violence: A Growing Concern

When it comes to school safety, gun violence is a very real threat to today’s students and educators. Over the past few decades, there has been an ala...


By     Lisa Railton
09 Sep 2021

Honoring Our K-12 Heroes

This summer, eSchool News announced the K-12 Hero Awards program to honor educators who brought students through the COVID-19 crisis. The past two sch...


By     Paget Hetherington
05 Aug 2021

App Watchlist: What Are Students Using?

We live in a digital world. It seems like there’s a constant stream of new apps and social networks that can be downloaded or joined in an instant, an...


By     Lisa Railton
15 Jul 2021

Legal Implications of SCOTUS Ruling for K-12 Schools

Recently the Supreme Court heard what was potentially the most consequential student speech case since Tinker v. Des Moines in 1969. The debate over w...


By     Dr. Lisa Strohman
08 Jun 2021

Cause for Concern: Child Exploitation on the Rise

In 2020, the National Center for Exploited & Missing Children (NCMEC) received a record-breaking 21.7 million reports of suspected child sexual ex...


By     Jack Russell
27 May 2021

Reflecting on Columbine: Mass Shootings and Mental Health

Back in April 1999, I was at the FBI Headquarters in Quantico trying to make sense of the Columbine tragedy. As a newly recruited FBI visiting scholar...


By     Dr. Lisa Strohman
25 May 2021

Our Youngest Students Are Not Okay

When schools shut down last March, many districts opted to include elementary students in their Gaggle services to ensure they were protected in the d...


By     Lisa Railton
04 May 2021

Disrupting School Violence: New Secret Service Report Offers Tips for Educators

The U.S. Secret Service National Threat Assessment Center (NTAC) recently released a report analyzing 67 disrupted plots against K-12 schools from 200...


By     Paget Hetherington
23 Apr 2021

Student Wellness: Dealing With Selfies and Explicit Content

The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted education in many ways. One trend Gaggle has observed is a 76% increase in incidents related to nudity and sexual c...


By     Jack Russell
20 Apr 2021

Students and the Pandemic: What Is Gaggle Seeing?

More than a year after the COVID-19 pandemic flipped learning upside-down overnight for students and educators across the country, how are students co...


By     Lisa Railton

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