How to Stop Bullying

Guest: Hana Shepherd, PhD, Sociologist at Rutgers University  You know the saying that one bad apple can spoil the bunch. Well, how about one good apple? Researchers from Rutgers, Princeton and Yale Universities spent a year working with what you might call the “good apples” in 56 middle schools to see if they could use the power of peer influence to reduce bullying and other types of student conflict. And it worked impressively.