YouthTruth has analyzed feedback gathered over three academic years from more than 160,000 students across 27 states about their experiences with bullying.
Here’s what they learned:
- Bullying rates have increased.
- Majority white schools have higher rates of bullying.
- In majority white schools, students of color experienced a steeper increase in bullying than white students in the 2017-18 school year.
- Middle school students experience higher rates of bullying than high school students.
Take Action Against Bullying
This free, downloadable guidebook from YouthTruth helps you move from data to action with some free resources to address bullying in schools and beyond. The guide includes tools and strategies from Learning for Justice, Teach Kindness, Facing History and Ourselves, and more.
Source: YouthTruth | From Data to Action: Bullying, https://youthtruthsurvey.org/fromdatatoaction_bullying | © 2019 Center for Effective Philanthropy
YouthTruth was born out of a conversation between the Center for Effective Philanthropy and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation back in 2008. The Foundation was seeking to hear from more voices – and one that was missing was the voice of the people whose lives they were trying to affect: the students themselves. YouthTruth is based on the simple but powerful premise that when you get timely feedback from those you’re trying to serve, and really listen to that feedback to make changes, you get better.
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