This story originally published online at The 9th Street Journal. Gaggle, a school surveillance and safety management software that has generated criticism since being introduced in Durham schools, ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Could your student’s school devices be violating their privacy in ways that could be used against them? A new report said the student surveillance company called Go Guardian and others ...

Ever since students have had the ability to go online at school, schools have been watching what they do. Through the use of activity monitoring software, schools can filter out certain websites or ...

More than a dozen rights groups and education organizations wrote a letter urgently calling on the Department of Education to take a stance on controversial student monitoring software, which they say ...

Advocates for the digital monitoring tools say they help save lives. Experts warn that the programs have a higher tendency to ...

Monitoring student activity online has become a hot button issue for districts, schools and parents alike in the digital age, where information is often shared freely and copiously via email, social ...

Schools are expected to keep students safe, but increasingly, their attempts to do so are instead putting students at risk. At least, that’s what’s suggested by a report released last week by the ...

Tell us about your experience with automated tools meant to detect suspicious student behavior. By Kashmir Hill We are no longer accepting submissions. Some of the responses were included in this ...

The tool, called Gaggle, uses artificial intelligence to search student documents for signs of unsafe behavior, such as ...