Schools try to control cyberbullying
Schools — especially middle schools — are trying to figure out how to respond to cyberbullying, reports the New York Times. Educators are reluctant to assert authority over what students do on their...
View ArticleSchools liable for cyberbullying
Under civil rights law, school officials must act to curb harassment of students off campus and after school, including cyberbullying, declares a “Dear Colleague” from the Education Department. From...
View ArticleAnti-bullying law stresses NJ schools
A new anti-bullying law requires New Jersey schools to police campuses and online communications to protect students, reports the New York Times. But superintendents and school boards complain they’re...
View ArticleAsian-Americans face more school bullying
Asian-American students endure more bullying than others, a new study finds. Fifty-four percent of Asian-American teenagers said they were bullied in the classroom, compared to 38.4 percent of blacks,...
View ArticleCyberbullying or free speech?
The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hear three cases involving students suspended for malicious online comments. School boards and principals had hoped for guidance on the clash between free speech...
View ArticleThe Ravi rethink
An 18-year-old freshman at Rutgers, Dharun Ravi bragged on Twitter about using a webcam to spy on his gay roommate and his male date, inviting friends to watch a second date. In a New Yorker story,...
View ArticleStudy: Cyberbullying isn’t common
Cyberbullying is not very common, ”has not increased over time and has not created many ‘new’ victims and bullies,” according to research at U.S. and Norwegian schools, reports Ed Week. The study, by...
View ArticleAnti-bully tweets praise of classmates
An Iowa City teenager and his friends are cyber-praising classmates in protest of cyberbullying, writes USA Today. Jeremiah Anthony created a Twitter feed to compliment his fellow West High School...
View ArticleStopping cyberbullies
Predatory adults are rare on social media, compared to mean girls and crude boys, writes Emily Bazelon in How to Stop the Bullies in The Atlantic. Facebook gets millions of complaints a week about...
View ArticleBig bully
A California principal used an anti-bullying assembly to accuse — wrongly — a freshman boy of cyberbullying. Arroyo High School Principal Larry Smith pointed out the boy as he sat with 400 classmates....
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