If you had the chance to shape research into cyber bullying what would you tell the researchers?
In mid-April 60 highly experienced, internationally acclaimed researchers will meet for 5 days in Melbourne in a united effort to find ways of preventing cyber bullying.
What would you say to them? Do you want to have the opportunity to [...]
More than a third of teachers are concerned that personal information displayed on social networking sites may be used in disciplinary action, new research has shown.
And a survey by the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) reveals that 24% of education staff say they or a colleague have been told by an employer to remove [...]
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Mohawk, N.Y. -
A settlement has been reached in a lawsuit filed last year on behalf of a gay student alleging that the Mohawk school district failed to protect him from threats and physical assaults and ignored repeated bullying.
The school district, New York Civil Liberties Union (representing the student) and U.S. Department of Justice agreed to [...]
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Nine teens, including three juveniles, have been charged in connection with the death of a 15-year-old Massachusetts girls who committed suicide after weeks of bullying on Facebook and at her high school.
Northwestern District Attorney Elizabeth Scheibel says Phoebe Prince suffered months of nearly constant stalking and harassment, the Associated Press reports.
Scheibel says school officials knew [...]
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The Annual Conference of the International Bullying Prevention Association will be held this year from November 15 – 17 in the Washington State Convention Center in downtown Seattle, Washington. The Conference is sponsored by the Microsoft Corporation. The conference theme will emphasize cyberbullying, youth risk online, and promoting positive online behavior, but there will also [...]
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TAMPA – Something unexpected is happening with a new online system that allows people to report school bullying anonymously.
Parents are treating the Hillsborough schools Web site as a 24-hour complaint line for everything from their children’s passing squabbles with classmates to grievances about teachers – incidents that usually don’t rise to the level of bullying.
But [...]
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(NOTE: I include this excellent piece by Dr. David Yamada of the Workplace Bullying Institute because we are seeing classic bullying behavior infect and distort our national political discourse. This will have a collateral imact on schools. This is not a political issue, it’s a sociological one — and presents a useful teaching moment for [...]
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A New York model is called “a skank” by an anonymous blogger, so she sues Google for the blogger’s name.
A Maryland Dunkin’ Donuts franchise is called “dirty” by another unnamed blogger, so its owner sues a newspaper website to unmask the critic.
And earlier this month, a local online media forum posts a subpoena from a [...]
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There’s a new target in cyber-bullying.
One in 10 children experience bullying on the internet but social networking sites such as Facebook are now being used by students to vent their opinions about school teachers.
A dozen students from Leeming Senior High School in Western Australia have been suspended after they contributed to a website that targeted [...]
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Research by psychologists at the University of Kent has revealed that online ostracism is a threat to children’s self-esteem.
The study, the results of which are published today (22 March) in the British Journal of Developmental Psychology, looked at how children, adolescents and adults react to being ostracised by other players during an online computer game. [...]
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