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Kids these days: ‘Better than we were,’ the President says

July 20, 2013 By Anne Leave a Comment

President Obama gave a preliminary statement last Sunday right after the jury gave its verdict in the Trayvon Martin case, but then after watching the controversy unfold in the days that followed, he said yesterday (7/19/13) in the White House briefing room that he thought it might be useful to expand on that a bit. Besides the calmness in his voice and quiet in the room for those 17+ minutes, … [Read more...] about Kids these days: ‘Better than we were,’ the President says

Filed Under: bullying, cyberbullying, Law & Policy, Parenting, Risk & Safety, School & Tech, school policy Tagged With: President Obama, school discipline, Trayvon Martin, youth

What school suspension ‘accomplishes’: Study

July 22, 2011 By Anne 3 Comments

I hope school administrators will think about this when they're dealing with cyberbullying: suspending students is only effective as "a school-to-prison pipeline." That's a conclusion from "a study of nearly a million Texas children described as an unprecedented look at discipline," according to the Washington Post. The study analyzed 6.6 million records of every Texas 7th grader 2000-'02, … [Read more...] about What school suspension ‘accomplishes’: Study

Filed Under: School & Tech Tagged With: school discipline, suspending students, Texas study, zero tolerance

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SocialMediaHelpline.com – helping
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CASEL.org & the 5 core social-emotional competencies of SEL
Center for Democracy & Technology
Center for Innovative Public Health Research
Childnet International
Committee for Children
Congressional Internet Caucus Academy
ConnectSafely.org
Crimes Against Children Research Center
Crisis Textline
Cyber Civil Rights Initiative's Revenge Porn Crisis Line
Cyberwise.org
danah boyd's blog and book about networked youth
Disconnected, Carrie James's book on digital ethics
FOSI.org's Good Digital Parenting
Future of Privacy Forum
The research of Global Kids Online
The Good Project at Harvard's School of Education
Prof. Henry Jenkins's blog
The International Bullying Prevention Association
Let Grow Foundation
Making Caring Common
Raising Digital Natives, author Devorah Heitner's site
Renee Hobbs at the Media Education Lab
MediaSmarts.ca
National Association for Media Literacy Education
The New Media Literacies
Report of the Aspen Task Force on Learning & the Internet and our guide to Creating Trusted Learning Environments
The Ruler Approach to social-emotional learning (Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence)
Sources of Strength
TheseLittleWaves.net, site of Galit Breen, author of Kindness Wins
"Young & Online: Perspectives on life in a digital age" from young people in 26 countries (via UNICEF)
"Youth Safety on a Living Internet": 2010 report of the Online Safety & Technology Working Group (and my post about it)

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