School Bullying: Research and Reports
Indicators of School Crime and Safety: 2004
National Center for Education Statistics
“For youth to fulfill their potential in school, schools should be safe and secure places for all students, teachers and staff members. Without a safe learning environment, teachers may have difficulty teaching and students may have difficulty learning. Gauging the safety of the school environment, however, may be difficult given the large amount of attention devoted to isolated incidents of extreme school violence nationwide.”
Tackling the Schoolyard Bully: Combining Policy Making with Prevention (July 2003)
National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL)
By Finessa Ferrell-Smith
“As the safety of U.S. schools has become an important public policy issue, interest in the problem of school bullying has intensified. New research indicates that this type of adolescent victimization occurs frequently, particularly in middle school grades, and can result in serious consequences for both bully and victim. In 2002, a report released by the U.S. Secret Service concluded that bullying played a significant role in many school shootings and that efforts should be made to eliminate bullying behavior.”
Bullying Prevention is Crime Prevention (2003)
Fight Crime: Invest In Kids
“Of children in sixth through 10th grade, more than 3.2 million—nearly one is six—are victims of bullying each year, while 3.7 million bully other children. Preventing kids from becoming bullies and intervening to get bullies back on track can not only protect children from the pain that bullying inflicts immediately, but can protect all of us from crime later on. Fortunately, programs have been developed that can cut bullying by as much as 50 percent. They just need to be implemented in America’s schools.”
Bullying Prevention and Intervention (3rd Edition) (2003)
Safe and Responsive Schools
“In the last few years, incidents of violent retribution by victims of bullying have led to an increased awareness of this phenomenon. A large number of students report having been bullied during school. Bullying may have a serious negative effect on these students. Bullying prevention programs are school-wide efforts designed to send a message that bullying is not acceptable in school and to teach students, teachers and parents how to respond to bullying.”
The Safe School Initiative: Implications for the prevention of school attacks in the United States (2002)
U.S. Secret Service and U.S. Department of Education
“Littleton, Colorado; Springfield, Oregon; West Paducah, Kentucky; Jonesboro, Arkansas. These communities have become familiar to many Americans as among the locations of those schools where shootings have occurred nationwide in recent years. In the aftermath of these tragic events, educators, law enforcement officials, mental health professionals and parents have pressed for answers to two central questions: “Could we have known that these attacks were being planned?” and, if so, “What could we have done to prevent these attacks from occurring?”
Bullying in Schools (2002)
U.S. Department of Justice
“There is a new concern about school violence, and police have assumed greater responsibility for helping school officials ensure students’ safety. As pressure increases to place officers in schools, police agencies must decide how best to contribute to student safety. Will police presence on campus most enhance safety? If police cannot and should not be on every campus, can they make other contributions to student safety? What are good approaches and practices?”
Bullying Among 9th Graders: An Exploratory Study (2002)
National Association of Secondary School Principals
“This study describes the bullying behaviors reported by 136 grade nine students in two high schools in the same Southern city. Nearly 75 percent of students reported observing some type of bullying at their school.”
Bullying (2001)
ERIC/CASS Digest
“According to some estimates, 160,000 children skip school each day because of intimidation by their peers. The National Center for Educational Statistics reports that 77 percent of middle and high school students in small mid-western towns have been bullied. And a newly released study from the National Institutes of Health published in the Journal of the American Medical Association reveals that almost a third of sixth to 10th graders -- 5.7 million children nationwide -- have experienced some kind of bullying (Nansel et al., 2001). Bullying has been a persistent problem that, with the heightened attention to school violence, has only recently been recognized as a pervasive issue needing immediate focus.”
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