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The National Center for Education Statistics of the Institute of Education Sciences has released new data compilations about school bullying. The report includes data from the 2015 School Crime Supplement (SCS) to the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS). The Web Tables show the extent to which students with different personal characteristics report being bullied. Estimates include responses by student characteristics: student sex, race/ethnicity, grade, and household income. The U.S. Census Bureau (Census) appended additional data from the 2013–14 Common Core of Data (CCD) and the 2013–14 Private School Universe Survey (PSS) to the SCS to show the extent to which bullying victimization is reported by students in schools with different characteristics.2 School characteristics appended to the file are region; sector (public or private); locale; level; enrollment size; student-to-full-time-equivalent (FTE) teacher ratio; percentage of combined American Indian/Alaska Native, Asi...

We have written often about school bullying. For example, here is an index to a series on bullying of children with disabilities that we ran a few years ago. A new survey commissioned by the cartoon network found that as of September 2017, school bullying is still prevalent. The key findings of the survey of 9 to 11 year old students included the following: A large majority, 77 percent, reported witnessing bullying at some point. 1 in 5 kids admitted to being a bully. Only 14 percent strongly agreed that our nation's leaders model how to treat people with kindness.  The study also interestingly found that three quarters of 9 to 11 year olds thought that caring about others was important. You can read the entire 30 page study here. You can read the NPR account of the study here. A related story about stressed kids in the Trump era is available here.