RESEARCH: Tormentors
Tags: BULLYING; SCHOOL violence; STUDENTS -- Crimes against
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- Crime Victims. Doherty, Olivia // Education Week;11/5/2003, Vol. 23 Issue 10, p16
The proportion of students victimized by crime in schools decreased from 1998 to 2001, a federal report says. The study, released by the National Center for Education Statistics, found that over that period, the percentage of students reported as being victims of crime declined from 10 percent...
- Treating Cyberbullying as a School Violence. Stover, Del // Education Digest;Dec2006, Vol. 72 Issue 4, p40
The article focuses on treating cyberbullying as a school violence issue. Online bullying is especially prevalent in middle and high schools. The author claims that for the targets of cyberbullying, the psychological harm generated is comparable to that of physical bullying. Specific concerns...
- PUT A STOP TO SCHOOLYARD BULLYING. // Fairfield County Business Journal;11/26/2007, Vol. 46 Issue 48, Special section p16
The article offers advice to parents on how to help their children deal with bullying in school. It is suggested that parents should talk to their children about bullying before it occurs, and to inquire about it when they suspect that their children and being bullied. Parents are also advised...
- Littleton redux. Tatum, Wilbert A. // New York Amsterdam News;04/29/99, Vol. 90 Issue 18, p12
Editorial. Focuses on the killing of several students by two of their classmates in Littleton, Colorado. Extent of the hatred shown by the two students; Possible factors which led the students to commit the crime; Root case of the violence seen in schools.
- Rooting Out the Bad Seeds? O'Meara, Kelly Patricia // Insight on the News;05/01/2000, Vol. 16 Issue 16, p22
Reports that a pilot program to identify dangerous kids known as Mosaic 2000 is being conducted in public schools without the knowledge of most parents. List of federal law enforcement agencies which have used the Mosaic computer-profiling system; Problems with Mosaic 2000; Number of violent...
- Saying the Unsaid: Girl Killing and the Curriculum. Perlstein, Daniel // Journal of Curriculum & Supervision;Fall98, Vol. 14 Issue 1, p88
Analyzes the March 1998 killing of four schoolgirls and a teacher in Jonesboro, Arkansas. Dismissal of gender tensions and hate as the reason for the killing; School shootings before the Jonesboro tragedy; Sentimental vision of a conflict-free society which obscured the reason for the killing;...
- Religious leaders offer prayers in wake of murders. // National Catholic Reporter;04/30/99, Vol. 35 Issue 26, p5
Reports that religious leaders reached out to Littleton, Colorado, in the wake of a school violence in Columbine High School, offering condolences, prayers and warning that moral decline is linked with violence in United States society. Insight on the school violence incident; Information on the...
- Learning Bloody Lessons. Chase, Bob // NEA Today;Apr99, Vol. 17 Issue 7, p2
Discusses the prevention of violence in schools in the United States. Comments from Jerry Painter, Washington Education Association's general counsel; Failure of some National Education Association members in providing violence prevention training to school employees; Safeness of the school...
- The Day They Can Never Forget. Graber, Janna L. // Redbook;Mar2000, Vol. 194 Issue 3, p92
Talks about the nightmares, anger and hopes of three survivors of the school shooting in Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado on April 20, 1999. INSET: Can Congress keep kids away from guns?.
