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  • NY to Adopt an Anti-Bullying Bill

    After a decade of debate, NY may adopt an anti-bullying bill that would require all school districts to report incidents of bullying to the State Education Department. Assemblyman Daniel J. O’Donnell, the main advocate for the bill said, “What we’re trying to do is nip bullying in the bud.” The bill passed, 58 to 3,…

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  • Female Aggression in Grade School

    Female aggression describes bullying among girls in grade school. This term was coined by Rachel Simmons, author of “Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls.” Simmons teaches young girls about how to cope with female aggression by creating “No Joke Zones”. Click here to read more about her approach. If you wish…

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  • Tenth Annual KidsBridge Humanitarian Awards Ceremony

    57 students and teachers will be rewarded for their outstanding acts of humanitarianism and community service. The Humanitarian Community Service Awards is one of several programs aimed in supporting character education in schools. Selected by their guidance counselors, teachers, and principals, these local students and teachers have demonstrated extraordinary acts of kindness, compassion, and service…

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  • To stop suicides, we must address bullying

    SPECIAL TO THE TIMES OF TRENTON, NEW JERSEY “BULLIED TO DEATH?” is the headline that graced People Magazine’s cover for the last week of April. Fifteen-year-old Phoebe Prince smiles at us between the sub-headlines “The teenager’s cry for help” and “New details about the accused “mean girls.’” Prosecutors charged six of Phoebe’ s schoolmates with felonies…

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  • Mercer County Teens Join with College Students to Take Action Against Gender Bias and Gay-Bashing

    This month, Kidsbridge Tolerance Museum hosted one hundred 7th and 8th grade students from different socio-economic communities in Mercer County.  With the assistance of diversity educators and college-age mentors, this workshop was designed to Explore bullying behavior related to gender and sexual identification, and Create remedial action plans to bring back to their schools. This…

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  • When someone’s getting hurt, whose business is it?

    When someone’s getting hurt, whose business is it? Saturday, March 20, 2010 STAFF WRITER On Jan. 28, a 15-year-old female was seen brutally beating another girl in the Seattle bus tunnel. The incident was captured on video by surveillance cameras. As shocking as this vicious attack was, the camera also revealed a different sort of…

  • Beating the bullies – with statistics

    Beating the bullies – with statistics 18 February 2010   Statistical analysis software helps anti-bullying charity put pressure on social networking sites to take action against cyber-bullying  The advent of the web as a social medium has had an unhappy consequence for a large number of young people, namely cyber-bullying, defined by the UK government as…

  • Kidsbridge Tolerance Museum Explores A Virtual Learning Environment

    Kidsbridge is investigating the possibilities of teaching and exhibiting in the virtual world of Second Life.  One of our volunteers was recently interviewed about this by PrimPerfect Magazine. Posted via email from lynne’s posterous

  • Standing Up for What You Believe

    Sometimes it is difficult to stand up for what you believe because it runs against the beliefs of other people.  Will Phillips, a 10-year old student at West Fork Elementary School in Arkansas, encountered this when he refused to recite the Pledge of Allegiance, specifically because he felt that one phrase, “liberty and justice for…

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