Bullying
Read about what schools can do to prevent and respond to bullying
School Choice & Charters
In Florida, Bullied Students Will Get Vouchers to Attend Private School
In a major expansion of Florida's private school choice, state lawmakers approved a measure that will allow students who are bullied, harassed, or attacked in their public schools to use taxpayer funded vouchers to attend a private school.
Law & Courts
News in Brief
Massachusetts High Court Rules Schools Not Liable for Bullying
Massachusetts' supreme court ruled last week that a school district cannot be held financially liable for bullying that left a child paralyzed.
School Climate & Safety
News in Brief
Viral Anti-Bullying Video Nets Student Two-Day Suspension
A Tennessee high school student's anti-bullying video has resulted in nearly 600,000 views on YouTube and a suspension for its creator.
School Climate & Safety
Opinion
How Schools Teach Victims and Abusers: Leadership Lessons From Michigan State
We can read these stories of abuse and follow the press about the uncovering of these cases with shock and shake our heads. Or we can take a look inside schools and see how we teach children.
School Climate & Safety
Opinion
We Educate, Bullies, Victims, and Bystanders
We are in a difficult time. This time is one that we have no frame of reference. The polarization of sides, beliefs, values are extreme and are flaunted. We are called as educators to be awake and active.
School Climate & Safety
Opinion
When Is It Enough?: On Sh*thole Countries and the People Who Come From Them
What is there to say about trying to exist in a place where your existence in and of itself is considered a burden?
School Climate & Safety
Opinion
The Vicious Cycle: When 'Control and Compliance' Means Teachers Too
'This is how it starts,' I thought to myself as I watched. 'This is how they start to silence us. They teach us to "control" our students, then they control us in the same way.'
School Climate & Safety
Opinion
Can Schools Teach Bullies and Bystanders About Common Ground?
Then there are those children who choose to use bullying behaviors to meet their own needs. We need to develop alternative pathways for them.
Law & Courts
News in Brief
Judge Backs Suspensions of Students Posting 'Liking' Online Racial Taunts
A federal district judge has upheld the expulsion of a high school student who created an Instagram account targeting black students and school staff members with racist and derogatory comments.
School Climate & Safety
Opinion
Developing the Courage to Report Sexual Abuse Begins in Schools
If we can teach children that they have power, and help them develop a voice, then less of them will enter the world of adulthood seeing and believing that power over another is the sole path to feeling powerful.
Federal
Democrats Ask Betsy DeVos to Act Against 'Hateful Bullying' in Schools
Senators took a potshot at DeVos' boss, President Donald Trump, arguing that his remarks on Twitter have "normalized" bigotry, misogyny, and other forms of discrimination.
School Climate & Safety
What if Online Bullying Behavior Also Happened in Person? For Kids, It Often Does.
A new public service announcement asks viewers to imagine what it would look like if people were as quick to say hurtful things in person as they are online. But, for kids, the line between behavior "in the real world" and behavior on the internet might not be as clear as we think.
Student Well-Being & Movement
MacArthur 'Genius' Betsy Paluck Seeks to Boost Power of Positive Peer Pressure
2017 MacArthur Fellow explores how students' social relationships can boost or undermine schools' efforts to stop bullying.
Classroom Technology
Hacked Twitter Accounts a New Headache for Schools
Recent incidents represent a convergence of issues that are increasingly bedeviling K-12 systems: inappropriate social media use and cybersecurity threats.