Resources on Bullying and Cyberbullying - The Learning Network Blog - NYTimes.com

Resources on Bullying and Cyberbullying - The Learning Network Blog - NYTimes.com

Resources on Bullying and Cyberbullying

By HOLLY EPSTEIN OJALVO

Suzanne DeChillo/The New York Times“If you’re under 13, you shouldn’t even be on Facebook.” – Maeve Cannon, standing at left, a 14-year-old eighth grader who was in a group advising younger students on avoiding bullying.Go to related article »

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Bullying, hazing, harassment: Whatever you want to call it, educators and parents are focusing on it more and more. A particularly thorny issue is how best to get involved when kids use digital devices and social networking sites to torment their peers.

In the past few months, Times reporters have looked at the pros and cons of antagonistic relationships and close friendships and the role of such relationships in bullying, as well as teens’ use of social networking sites to insult one another. You likely also remember coverage of the Phoebe Prince case.

Over the weekend, The Times reported on a study showing that an apparent decrease in empathy among today’s teenagers isn’t an illusion. (Can empathybe taught?) And a front page article today by Jan Hoffman takes a close, hard