Students in schools that perform better than expected are less likely to use drugs and alcohol, a new study finds. The study looked at 61 inner-city middle schools in Chicago, and found students in these same schools were also less likely to steal or participate in fights compared with children in schools that did not perform as well.
The study, published in the March issue of the journal Prevention Science, found that higher performance in the classroom cut the rate of drug use in...
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