The latest research on bullying – a series of studies of 3,722 8th-to-10th-graders in three North Carolina counties – found that targets of bullying are not physically or socially weaker or marginalized students so much as social rivals. What's interesting about this is that the focus is shifting from individual traits (how strong or aggressive or marginalized kids are) to where they are in the … [Read more...] about New view of targets & bullies: Study