In its 2021 opinion Mahoney Area Sch. Dist. v. B.L., the Supreme Court ruled that the school in that case could not suspend that...

A small boarding school in Massachusetts banned smart phones this fall for all of its students and faculty.  The students initially...

In our efforts to stamp bullying, we need to be sure that we aren't penalizing ordinary conflict.  We have to know the difference,...

A recent study from Ontario delved into the self-reports of almost 3,000 adolescents in the 2014 Ontario Child Health Study. The...

The Trauma, Violence & Abuse journal recently published a sobering analysis of numerous violence prevention programs aimed at young...

One silver lining of the pandemic was the decreased number of bullying incidents, most likely because students were not at school to...

October is National Bullying Prevention Month, so we will hear a lot of ideas about how to prevent school–based bullying.  Unfortunately,...

The Cincinnati Public School System has agreed to a proposed settlement of a lawsuit arising out of the suicide of an 8-year-old student....

A recent Penn State study of middle and high school students found that most students suffer bullying from their friends or...

In my quest to find good anti-bullying programs, I ran across a survey analysis concluding that family resilience factors may help. ...

Anti-bullying programs get a lot of attention these days, because everyone wants to spare children the trauma of true bullying.  Yet in...

With so many children learning virtually this fall and otherwise having to keep in touch with their friends by electronic, cyberbullying...