School uniforms

School Administrator, Oct, 2005

Sociologist David Brunsma, an assistant professor at the University of Missouri, has published a study "The School Uniform Movement and What It Tells Us About American Education: A Symbolic Crusade." The decade-long study indicates that uniforms worn to school by students have no positive effect on achievement or behavior.

Instead, the researcher reported, a uniform policy may have negative effects in schools by increasing the division between economic status in schools and drawing the focus away from fundamental problems within schools.

This study can be accessed at www.edweek.org/tm/articles/2005/05/01/ 06interview.h16.html.