Editor’s note: Prepared for Educational
Leadership, this article is a condensed
version of “Bullying and Children’s Peer
Relationships,” a report that the author
delivered at the White House Conference on
Bullying Prevention in March 2011. The full
version of this report, with complete references, is available at www.stopbullying.gov/
references/white_house_conference/white_
house_conference_materials.pdf#bullying_
and_peer_relationships.
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VIDEO
To watch President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama give their
opening remarks at the Conference on Bullying Prevention, go to
www.whitehouse.gov/photos-and-video/video/2011/03/10/president-
obama-first-lady-conference-bullying-prevention
Philip C. Rodkin is associate professor
of child development in the Departments of Educational Psychology and
Psychology at the University of Illinois at
Urbana–Champaign; rodkin@illinois.edu.
