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We Need More Research on Effective Anti-Bullying Practices!!
Lack of Knowledge Stymies Efforts to Stop Bullying By Dakarai Aarons on August 12, 2010 5:13 AM District Dossier Despite increased attention to the bullying of school-age children, researchers, school leaders and federal education and health officials say more research is needed to pinpoint effective anti-bullying practices. Phillip C. Rodkin, an associate professor of educational…
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When Will Our Schools Take a Stand Against Cyberbullying?
Research states that 4 out of 10 students are bullied online. To address this issue the Chicago Board of Education has passed a new Student Code of Conduct which states that cyberbullying is just as serious of an offense as drug use, gang activity, aggravated assault, and burglary. Thus, these new laws state that children…
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Campaign for a Commercial Free Childhood
Worried About Young Children’s Screen Time? Here’s What You Can Do CCFC News – July 2010 STAFF WRITER Did you know 36% of center-based child-care programs include TV, for an average of 1.2 hours a day, and 70% of home-based child-care programs include TV for an average of 3.4 hours per day? This week, we…
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The Bystander Epidemic
When we turn a blind eye to students who are bystanders to bullying, we are telling our students that it is okay to not stand and speak up against the problems that they or their peers are facing. If we continue to promote pro-active students, we will stop the epidemic of bystanders in our society.…
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Cyberbullying and Your Child
Elizabeth K Englander, the founder and director of the Massachusetts Aggression Reduction Center at Bridgewater State college, answered NY times readers questions on cyberbullying. The selected question for today’s article was, “What happens when my child is the cyberbully?” Too often parents are quick to turn a blind eye when they find out that their…
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Schools Handling Cyberbullying?
Two sixth grade boys at Benjamin Franklin Middle School in Ridgewood, NJ texted dozens of sexually explicit threats to one of their female classmates. When the fearful girl went to the prinicipal he replied, “We can’t discipline him” since the text messages occured outside of school hours. The parents, who did not want to…
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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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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…