Media literacy can promote healthy relationships
Beyond filters and hashtags: teaching teens to see through romantic illusions online and embrace genuine, healthy relationship values.
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Chicago teens dispute gun culture on social media
Through Project Unloaded, Chicago youth use TikTok-style humor to flip the script on guns and inspire safer community choices.
Kids Online Safety and Privacy Act now in Congress
A Congressional Research Service report identifies key points about the proposed legislation, which aims to keep kids safe online.
Pa. middle schoolers impersonate teachers on TikTok
Students impersonated their teachers on TikTok and posted racist, homophobic, and pedophilic memes in their teachers' names.
Student reviews: Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story
Even if you haven't seen the Netflix miniseries about Jeffrey Dahmer, you have certainly heard about it. Here's what students say.
TikTok challenges are dangerous for schools, kids
The popular social media app is spreading hazardous "challenges" that can damage kids' physical and emotional wellbeing.
A few threats received against Baltimore-area schools
Police and school officials in a few Md. school systems have been investigating threats since the mass shooting in Fla.
Companies often fire workers for social media posts
Public schools play by different rules than companies do when it comes to the hiring and firing of employees. Be careful.
Boy arrested; posted he would ‘shoot up Northeast’
A 16-year-old boy was arrested after he posted a picture that appeared to threaten violence against a Md. high school.
#MeToo doesn’t have to be a political movement
A hashtag can be a powerful thing, a student from Bloomington, Ind., explains, esp. when it comes to sparking a social revolution.