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29 Oct 2021

Violence Toward Others: What Is Gaggle Seeing?

Last school year, Gaggle flagged more than 360,000 student safety incidents requiring district attention to help ensure student safety and well-being....


By     Lisa Railton
19 Oct 2021

Suicide & Self-Harm: What Is Gaggle Seeing?

Here at Gaggle, our mission is to ensure the safety and well-being of students and schools by leveraging people and technology. If our technology iden...


By     Lisa Railton
15 Oct 2021

How Are Elementary Students Doing?

With the continued prevalence of remote learning during the 2020–21 school year, K-12 districts across the country recognized the need to protect stud...


By     Lisa Railton
05 Oct 2021

The State of Student Safety: 2020–21 School Year

Each year, we share our findings from the most recent school year in our annual Through the Gaggle Lens: The State of Student Safety report. When the ...


By     Lisa Railton
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

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