Harvard EdCast: Taye Diggs This Book and So Do We
Last semester, actor and author Taye Diggs visited the Askwith Forum with his illustrator Shane Evans to discuss their collaboration on the children’s book, Chocolate Me! The book, published late last...
View ArticleThe Bullying Conundrum
Schools need to do something, but what? Illustrations by Edel Rodriguez High school student Zachary Kerr didn’t know what to do. As a sophomore transitioning from female to male, he was met with...
View ArticleIn Their Words
Alyssa Ahrens submitted her essay “Too Late” to a student essay contest on bullying that I held earlier this year for young people aged 14 to 19 in partnership with The New York Times Learning Network...
View ArticlePowering Social Change with Data: A Bully Case Study
At last week’s Askwith Forum, “Powering Social Change with Data: A Bully Case Study,” Nancy Lublin, CEO of DoSomething.org, along with DoSomething.org Data Scientist Jeff Bladt, presented findings on...
View ArticleWatch the DoSomething.org Askwith Forum Live
At the Askwith Forum, “Powering Social Change with Data: A Bully Case Study,”Nancy Lublin, CEO of DoSomething.org and Jeff Bladt, data scientist at DoSomething.org, will present initial findings on...
View ArticleHarvard EdCast: Doing Something About Bullying
DoSomething.org is an organization that helps teens put their energy, creativity, and activism to good use through the launch of numerous campaigns designed to spur people to action about causes that...
View ArticleSpring 2013 Askwith Forums Announced
The Harvard Graduate School of Education is pleased to announce its spring 2013 Askwith Forums, a series of public lectures dedicated to discussing challenges facing education, sharing new knowledge,...
View ArticleStand Up or Bystand? New Insights on Bullying
Why do we hear so much about bullying in schools today? Is bullying worse now than ever before? Or is it just more visible to the outside world — more pervasive in the new digital era? Some would argue...
View ArticleAskwith Forum: Teaching Empathy, Preventing Bullying
Though bullying has increasingly moved to the Internet, kids still torment each other in the hallways at school. In fact, in person and online bullying usually go together. In this new landscape, what...
View ArticleHarvard EdCast: Sticks and Stones
In Sticks and Stones, writer Emily Bazelon explores the bullying epidemic — from classrooms to cafeterias to Facebook — and attempts to define both what bullying is and what it is not. She also dispels...
View ArticleHGSE Partners with RFK Center on Project SEATBELT
(Washington, D.C., June 5, 2013) Kerry Kennedy, president of the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights (RFK Center), announced the launch of a groundbreaking new initiative of the RFK...
View ArticleOn Moral Development and Bullying
Lecturer Richard Weissbourd discusses how raising caring, respectful, and courageous children can help prevent cruelty and bullying. Related: Weissbourd and Jones Receive Grant
View ArticleHarvard EdCast: Understanding a Bully
In the new book, Bullying and Cyberbullying: What Every Educator Needs to Know, published by Harvard Education Press, nationally recognized bullying expert Elizabeth Kandel Englander — professor of...
View ArticleDoc Student Awarded NSF Grant
Doctoral student Geoff Marietta, Ed.M.’13, the co-founder of Giant Otter Technologies, was recently awarded a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I grant from the National Science...
View ArticleOnline Speech Debated in J-Term Course
Can schools punish students for online speech? This question, posed by Dean James Ryan as part of his J-Term seminar, opened the doors to many more questions. Calling the issue a “remarkably difficult”...
View ArticleThe Game of Bullying Prevention
Doctoral student Geoff Marietta, Ed.M.’13, and Jeff Orkin — cofounders of Giant Otter Technologies, Inc. — worked together to create SchoolLife, an antibullying video game. We take a closer look at...
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