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Nina Baym, a professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and a women’s literature scholar, called “The Bondwoman’s Narrative” a “great find...
...kind of heavy hand has its opponents. William Pollack, a psychologist who wrote Real Boys' Voices, an exploration of boyhood, contends that such a punitive approach criminalizes childhood behavior and fails to address the root causes of bullying. Dorothy Espelage, an assistant professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign who co-authored a study on bullies, favors a comprehensive approach. "As soon as you pull a bully out of a school, another will take his place," she says. A deeper shift in school culture is required, she argues, because ultimately peer groups, not individuals, promote an ethic...
...kind of heavy hand has its opponents. William Pollack, a psychologist who wrote Real Boys' Voices, an exploration of boyhood, contends that such a punitive approach criminalizes childhood behavior and fails to address the root causes of bullying. Dorothy Espelage, an assistant professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign who co-authored a study on bullies, favors a comprehensive approach. "As soon as you pull a bully out of a school, another will take his place," she says. A deeper shift in school culture is required, she argues, because ultimately peer groups, not individuals, promote an ethic...
...University of Michigan presidential search placed Bollinger on a short list with provosts from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of California at Berkeley and the University of Pennsylvania...
...teachers alike, according to a report presented last week at a meeting of the American Psychological Association (A.P.A.). "These are the kids that other students look up to, the ones everybody wants to hang out with," says Dorothy Espelage, an assistant professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, who co-authored the study. It defines bullying as persistent teasing, name calling or social exclusion; Espelage did not include overt physical acts, since she found they were rare and typically used by students with more serious problems...