(NOTE: The Cartoon Network will be participating in the Annual Conference of the International Bullying Prevention Association in Seattle this November. The full conference agenda is expected to be released in early June. Online registration, payment, and hotel registrations will be available. Please return to this site for more information as things develop, or VISIT [...]
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Florida police investigating the death of a fifth grader who hanged herself are scheduled to go to the girl’s school this week after finding a diary detailing how she was apparently tormented by bullies. The diary entries are expected to be made public later this week, Port St. Lucie Police spokesman Tom Nichols told ABC [...]
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AN alternative school struggling to meet the demand for places, says many of its students have dropped out of mainstream education because of bullying. The Salvation Army’s Youth Outreach Service education program, or flexi school, at Lawnton has 18 students enrolled and 10 on the waiting list. Despite the demand for the flexi school, the [...]
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Maryland first lady Katie O’Malley made an early-morning visit Monday to Pikesville Middle School, where she praised school leaders and students for serving as a model for schools struggling to address bullying. O’Malley visited the middle school to launch Bullying Awareness and Prevention Week in the state. “Bullies are mean, they’re intimidating and they need [...]
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Most recently, there was the case of two former Carmel basketball players charged with abuse of fellow teammates. Nationally there have been stories of teens so tormented by peers that they take their own lives. Kim Harvey of Indianapolis thinks the problem of bullying is more rampant now. Her opinion is that children are more [...]
Here are two links to a story unfolding in Nome, Alaska. One is a fairly straightforward article about a school board recall election. The other suggests what might an underlying component to the recall story: a history of division along racial lines. Whether the newspaper missed the real story, or whether the blogger is inventing [...]
POLICE investigating the death of a teenager believed to have hanged himself were last night looking into claims that he was being bullied on Facebook. Tom Mullaney, 15, was found dead at his home in Bournville, Birmingham, on Thursday morning. Since his death, some friends claimed via tributes on Facebook that he was being bullied [...]
Research about the effects of school climates on students’ abilities to learn and on teachers’ effectiveness to teach is large and spans decades. Solid evidence from national research and school-wide practices has shown that students will learn more, and be physically and emotionally healthier, when nurtured in positive social climates. See Ask the Expert Interview [...]
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The Garden City Middle School has developed a comprehensive program to prevent bullying based on the Olweus Bullying Prevention program. Olweus, developed by Norwegian research professor Dr. Dan Olweus, is a nationally recognized and proven program focusing on prevention and bully reduction. The program, backed by 35 years of research, is centered on a whole [...]
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In the mid-1990s, a pair of Canadian researchers videotaping children on playgrounds made a simple observation that helped shift experts’ views about bullying: When children bullied other children, they rarely did it alone. “People began to realize that bullying wasn’t just a problem between two kids,” said Susan M. Swearer, an associate professor of school [...]
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