Sentences with phrase «about bullying among»

While a smaller proportion of school leaders in 2016 appear to be worried about bullying among their pupils (33 % this year, down from 38 % in 2015), concern about obesity has seen a rise of 5 % over the same period — up from 36 % to 41 %.

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Whether it is concerns about adults posing as teens, sexting among peers, identity theft or cyberbullying and sexual bullying, parents have a lot to worry about.

When Dicker asked if Congress or the president would address the issue about people with mental illness gaining access to guns, Tenney said part of the problem is a lack of respect among young people and online bullying.

«This study is trying to show that we need to be thinking about the structural forces that make bullying prevalent among certain groups of kids, which is not a coincidence.

They found that the vast majority of the children, or 90 percent of them, were not involved in bullying, and among this group, about 12 percent had been diagnosed with a psychiatric disorder before age 30.

We hear the news stories about teenagers and online bullying, but the same thing happens daily among adults.

Two eighth graders who appeared in the film as sixth graders said facing bullies and getting lost were among their top concerns about middle school.

And, quite apart from striking the right balance among academic subjects, do schools place enough emphasis on cultivating students» character and creativity, educating them about global warming, and taking steps to prevent bullying?

Anita and Me, Meera Syal's 1996 story of a British Punjabi girl in the Midlands, and Dennis Kelly's 2007 play about bullying, DNA, are understood to be among the most recent works included in the draft syllabus.

Instead of basic workshops about bullying, Villenas says more targeted information about bias - based bullying, specifically, would help teachers understand the issues faced by particular subgroups in their schools and how they play out among students.

Retaining an explicit emphasis in the new standards on including «opportunities for students to study relationships among science, technology, and society» (Hicks et al., 2014, Table 1) would open the door to consideration of a set of issues that every future teacher ought to be thinking about, for example, the power relationships enacted online as manifest through sexism, racism, anti-Semitism, and homophobia; the quality of the discourse and information that circulates there and the effects of rumor on reputation; notions of public and private in a digital age; cyber bullying and suicide; copyright and plagiarism; ethics and professional responsibilities related to social media; and a host of other topics and questions that a critical media literacy approach could raise regarding technology and citizenship education.

Hà's story touches upon many themes that I like to keep an open dialogue about with my children, among them: the often heartbreaking and perilous lives and background stories of immigrants and refugees, and the effects of bullying.

Among other things, it claimed that Magic Leap employees made comments about women being bad with computers, dismissed female team members» input, and created a «macho bullying» culture at the office.

These types of studies can provide the concrete support needed to help guide journalists and other content creators as they navigate among the goals of interesting their audiences, getting their job done, and informing the public about bullying responsibly.

Mia thought it was a fair call, I feel uncomfortable about it «shaming» the girl, and as one commenter said: «Wonder where she learned bullying?????» But it was definitely the biggest talking point of the week among readers.