Article Source: International Herald Tribune

In today’s New York Times, Jan Hoffman explores the thorny issues that schools face in dealing with cyberbullying, those vicious text messages and Facebook postings students often use to hurt each other. She writes that one in five middle-school students has been cyberbullied — through cellphone texts, social networking sites, instant messages and online games, according to a 2010 study by the Cyberbullying Research Center, a think tank founded by two criminologists.

Do you need more information about cyberbullying? Elizabeth K. Englander is a professor of psychology and the founder and director of the Massachusetts Aggression Reduction Center at Bridgewater State College, which provides anti-bullying and anti-violence training programs and resources to schools and families.

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