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Social Maturity as a Measure of Success: It’s not cool to be mean … “Pass it On”

This week we will be featuring more great online safety materials and resources, but we wanted to start the week on a different, yet connected, note: The need to move toward valuing social maturity/intelligence as an equally worthy measure of “success” as academic goals.  We have written about this before (see for example our blogs on Adolescents [...]

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“New Boy” Video Clip: The Tip of the Bullying Iceberg

This week we are featuring a film about a “young African boy with a haunting back story who starts school in Ireland, and finds out quickly exactly what it means to be the new kid. Winner of Best Narrative Short at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival and nominated for an Oscar.”  Let’s check it out … 

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The Formspringme.com Controversy: swimming pools, faulty gas tanks and cigarettes

What might anonymous post web sites, swimming pools without fences, poorly designed gas tanks and cigarettes all have in common?  Read on…

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