This article was originally published in CalMatters. Aleeza Siddique, 15, was in a Spanish class earlier this year in her Northern California high school when a lesson about newscasts got derailed by ...

Students in Clark County, Nev., can’t see whatever they want online, but they have some say in the matter. Those who want to view a Web site blocked by the district’s Internet filter can initiate a ...

This article was copublished with The Markup, a nonprofit, investigative newsroom that challenges technology to serve the public good. There’s a common complaint among high school students across the ...

Not all web filtering software is the same. The solution you have in place now might be outdated or might no longer meet your needs. To see if it’s time for an upgrade, here are eight key questions to ...

This article was copublished with The Markup, a nonprofit, investigative newsroom that challenges technology to serve the public good. A middle school student in Missouri had trouble collecting images ...

Lightspeed Systems, which produces software used for website filtering in thousands of public schools across the U.S., says it will update its software to remove a filter that blocked websites with ...

eSchool News sat down with Brian Thomas, president & chief executive officer of Lightspeed Systems, which builds software that helps schools keep their devices safe and is used by more than 6,500 ...

The risks students face online have heightened over the past decade, increasing awareness in the education system around the importance of children’s safe, responsible, and healthy technology use.

Around dinner time one night in May, a student in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Googled “Obergefell v. Hodges ruling.” But instead of a list of links to information about the landmark US Supreme Court case ...

Internet access is essential for most modern workplaces but also opens up potential distractions and security risks. Many employers implement web filtering to block certain websites deemed ...

Cold Turkey Blocker is free software that you can install on your system for web filtering. You can use it to block websites and applications installed on your ...