Students continue to find new, and increasingly advanced, ways to plagiarize assignments and to cheat on exams using technology. Among the newer trends is the use of auto-summarize features in Word and other programs to generate essays that are passed off as students' own work.

How can I find the support my child with special needs requires at school? To answer that question, and more, many parents look to online forums where parents share advice.

White teenage boys are being exposed via social media to groups peddling hate. Writer Joanna Schroeder explains how she protects her kids from the extremist propaganda they encounter online.

Two new studies question earlier reports that black students are disproportionately identified for special education. Instead, the studies, conducted by independent groups of scholars, find that students of color are less likely than their white peers to be identified as having disabilities.

By the end of fourth grade, the Roddy family had received an official diagnosis of dyslexia, and, eventually, Roddy shed the anxiety that had built up through her struggles. Music was key to her progress.

Anxiety is running rampant in high schools around the country, both rich and poor. The driving factors may be different, but it’s the same lonely, debilitating feeling. It makes it hard for students to learn and to deal with life. Katrina Schwartz takes us inside the experience of anxiety from two teens’ perspectives and shares…

Though every school district faces unique struggles to support teachers, two programs offer promising models for school leaders to develop structure and stamina for budding educators.

Educators and school leaders who are transitioning into new roles this year should prioritize listening before acting, writes Fred Ende, an administrator in a New York state district. The move to a new role is a change for the individual moving, but it also affects people in the organization who have to adjust.

Google for Education has introduced a feature called originality reports that allows teachers and students to scan their work for plagiarism. As the feature scans work for commonalities among billions of webpages and millions of books, it highlights text that may need additional sourcing.

Online gaming and other digital activities cause problems in people's health, relationships and studies. Government centers treat teen boys and girls who struggle to cut down on use of tech devices.

Four recent studies highlight the effects of increasing money for schools. Some research shows that additional money led to higher test scores and college admissions rates, while another found the greatest benefit was to students from lower-income households.

Adolescents who checked social media more than three times daily had increased psychological distress, compared with those with lower social media use, according to a UK study in The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health. Researchers also found that reduced sleep quality and elevated cyberbullying exposure accounted for about 60% of the correlation between very frequent…