Word: peers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...answer to higher achievement or to closing the gap between minority and majority students." But a change in dress, particularly to a uniform, can have numerous positive effects. Students may become more self-confident and self-disciplined, less judgmental of other students, better able to resist peer pressure and concentrate on schoolwork. Jean Hartman of Long Beach, Calif., was once an opponent of uniforms. But after they were made mandatory in her children's school district--where 66,000 students in 56 elementary schools, 14 middle schools and one high school now wear them--there were "fewer disruptions, fewer suspensions...
...Parents remain the most significant people in children's lives, until age 14 or 15, when they have more fully embraced peer culture," says Jean Bailey, coordinator of child and adolescent mental-health services at Lutheran Medical Center in Brooklyn, N.Y. Personal values about religion, sex and obeying authority are shaped primarily shaped by parents right up until the teenage years, when things suddenly shift. While kids may be exposed to sex in the media, "there's a lot of anxiety about what the whole deal of sexual behavior is," says child psychologist Anthony Wolf, author...
...Peer pressure rears its head in other ways as well. What does it take to "fit in" at school? Kids ages 9 to 11 say it's being a good friend, being good at sports and being funny or popular. But kids in the 12- to 14 group have different criteria: clothes come first, then "being popular" and third, good looks. "This is a little bit sad," observes Wolf, "but it also shows parents what they're up against if they're trying to draw the line on certain clothes." The emphasis on having the right stuff to wear...
While Harvard spent more than a million dollars trying to keep "within shouting distance" of its "peer institutions" by increasing aid packages on a case-by-case basis, it found itself outbid by much of the Ivy League...
...There are competitive pressures, but it's not just competition among peer institutions," Wright says. "It's a concern about [students] leaving our entire set of institutions and going public...