Can You Stand Up to Bullying?
By Mary Ellen Flannery Just one caring adult can make all the difference in the world to a bullied child, research shows. One caring adult can keep them from dropping out of school. One caring adult...
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Bullying Prevention: It Can Start with ESPs
By Meredith Barnett From her post in Leslie Middle School’s office, Debbie Pavon knows what to do when she spots one of her “frequent fliers.” That’s what this education support professional (ESP)...
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New Report Details Bullying’s Deadly Toll on LGBT Students
By Cindy Long New research has found that lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) students who are severely bullied in middle and high school carry serious health and mental health problems into...
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Why Outsiders in School Succeed
By Cindy Long Alexandra Robbins says she was a total geek in high school. Now she’s a prominent journalist (her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Vanity Fair and The Washington Post) and a New York...
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Bullying Takes Toll on Minority Student Achievement
By Cindy Long Victims of bullying can face a lifetime of psychological scars, but they also suffer academically, particularly Black and Latino students, according to new research. Educators know that...
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Minnesota School District Drops “Neutrality” Policy on Sexual Orientation
By Cindy Long After a rash of teen suicides and complaints that it didn’t go far enough to prevent antigay bullying, Minnesota’s largest school district will make major changes in its policies to...
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No Name-Calling Week Focuses on Anti-Bullying Awareness
By Edward Graham Every day, thousands of children in schools across America fall victim to bullying at the hands of their peers. It’s an epidemic that threatens the emotional development of students,...
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Educators Take a Stand During National Bullying Prevention Month
By Sara Robertson and Edward Graham October marks the observance of National Bullying Prevention Month, an annual campaign that brings educators, schools, and communities together to combat the...
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School Bus Drivers Put the Brakes on Bullying
Bullying happens in stairwells and in cafeterias, in the classroom and on the playground, but it also takes place beyond the school grounds as buses pull away from the curb. According to the U.S....
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Bullying’s Impact on American Indian/Alaskan Native Students
By Robert McNeely For 16-year-old Coloradas Mangas of the Mescalero Apache Reservation in New Mexico, the rising teenage suicide rate among American Indians and Alaskan Natives has been all too real....
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Bullying of Teachers Pervasive in Many Schools
Workplace bullying is on the rise. About a third of American workers have been impacted by bullying in the workplace, either as a target or as witness to abusive behavior against a co-worker....
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School Counselor and NEA Member Honored as GLSEN Educator of the Year
On May 20th, the Gay Lesbian Straight Education Network (GLSEN), a national organization that focuses on providing safe schools for all students, recognized Matthew Beck—a school counselor at Erie...
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NEA Provides Educators with Guidance on Preventing Workplace Bullying
Kim Werner’s former principal was identified by her union as the most abusive principal in the district. “He has been targeting educators for fifteen years,” she says. “He lies. He coerces. He...
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States Move to Protect Teachers from Cyberbullying
In December 2012, the first and only law in the nation that criminalizes cyberbullying of teachers by students went into effect in North Carolina. Under the “School Violence Prevention Act of 2012,”...
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Improving School Climate Central to Anti-Bullying Efforts, Say Experts
The importance of school climate was the theme of the National Education Association’s Bully Free Summit held on Tuesday at its national headquarters in Washington, D.C. The summit brought together...
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Are Mindful Students Less Likely to Bully?
by Tara Hornich-Lisciandro Nearly one in three U.S. students report being bullied during the school year, and seven out of ten young adults and children are victim to cyberbullying every day, according...
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Less Hate in the Hallways? Possibly – But Decline Might be Exaggerated
Has the national attention on bullying produced actual results in schools? Survey data by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) suggests that might be the case, at least on some fronts....
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Keeping Schools Safe, Happy Places for Everyone
When you walk into school in the morning, you want the climate to be happy, welcoming and supportive. But what if you are unable to feel any of those things? In some schools, hostilities seethe under...
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Some of the Surprising Reasons Why Students Drop Out of School
“Why We Drop Out”: Understanding and Disrupting Student Pathways to Leaving School by Deborah L. Feldman, Antony T. Smith, and Barbara L. Waxman, recounts the compelling stories of kids who explain...
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