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Beating back bullying: What do successful schools districts share?
posted 10/19/2021
What do schools where students report low levels of bullying and fighting have in common? A reporter seeks to answer that question.
Quick pivot produces a data-driven look at nursing homes during COVID-19
posted 12/10/2020
Two reporters share how they cleared tall hurdles to paint a harrowing portrait of COVID-19's impact on Southern California nursing homes.
Can we do better to protect vulnerable kids from bullying?
posted 03/19/2020
In August 2018, three high school students and an elementary school student in Rancho Cucamonga, California killed themselves. I wanted to do more than just report the grim facts of their deaths — but how?

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Beating back bullying: What do successful schools districts share?
What do schools where students report low levels of bullying and fighting have in common? A... more »
posted 10/19/21
Quick pivot produces a data-driven look at nursing homes during COVID-19
Two reporters share how they cleared tall hurdles to paint a harrowing portrait of COVID-19's... more »
posted 12/10/20
Can we do better to protect vulnerable kids from bullying?
In August 2018, three high school students and an elementary school student in Rancho Cucamonga,... more »
posted 03/19/20

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Lesson: Getting the data was the hard part. Asking standout schools how they were curbing bullying was easy.
How one reporter used data to assess school climate in California.
Project: How California students from marginalized groups are working to stop bullying
This story is part of a larger project for the 2021 Data Fellowship, a program of the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism....
Project: What makes some California school districts so much better at preventing bullying?
One in three middle and high school students say they’ve been bullied, a new Southern California News Group analysis shows.