YouTube has been willing to offer everyone the opportunity to serve video content. Being open to everyone has been both a blessing and a curse. It seems we have very different opinions regarding what represents useful and entertaining content. In education settings what might be funny or entertaining to someone in some other context ends being inappropriate and distracting. Since schools cannot control which videas are available, a common solution has been to block access entirely.
Google has responded with YouTube for Schools. The idea (at least as I understand it) is to isolate content from YouTube Education in a way that allows schools to move this content through the filter in a predictable and controllable way. You might want to start with this page for the official description.
Sometimes teachers need to advocate – this site offered for teachers may provide some encouragement.
