School bullying has been identified as harmful to students' mental health. Many studies have evaluated the effectiveness of bullying prevention programs, finding mixed results in general and no ...
Seventh-grader Emma dreaded walking into the cafeteria each day. Classmates had been posting cruel comments about her appearance online for weeks, and lunch period felt like entering a war zone. Then ...
A new report from the Highmark Foundation argues for the worth of the group's bullying prevention program in Pennsylvania schools by outlining the initiative's estimated cost-savings in terms of ...
We are currently in the 13th annual National Bullying Prevention Month campaign, initiated in 2006 by PACER. The purpose of the yearly month-long campaign is, of course, to prevent bullying. While ...
Bullying prevention programs work best when they extend beyond a single awareness week or classroom poster campaign. For elementary educators, the challenge is often finding age-appropriate ways to ...
Remember DARE, Drug Abuse Resistance Education — the prevention program that took decades to fade despite repeated evidence it actually increased drug and alcohol abuse among schoolkids? Early ...
ANNA, Ill. (KFVS) - With the school year underway, one thing your child may have to worry about is bullying. According to the National Bullying Prevention Center, one out of every five students ...
Bullying appears to be increasing, even among adults, visible on TV, online and in workplaces. Too many government leaders, and some business executives, are cowering to bullying instead of ...
UB’s Alberti Center for Bullying Abuse Prevention has earned a $1.38 million grant to develop and test an approach to reduce bullying and sexual harassment in high schools. The three-year grant ...
Schools in the Baltimore region are spotlighting anti-bullying efforts as part of National Bullying Prevention Awareness Week. “We need to raise awareness about this critical issue,” said Julie ...
Oct. 20 (UPI) --Encouraging classmates to defend bullied pupils may do more harm than good, according to a review of existing research published Tuesday by Child Development Perspectives. Unlike ...
Yours truly has been predicting longer than anyone that our anti-bullying programs and campaigns are bound to fail. Seven years ago, I posted an article on my website explaining the reasons for the ...