More School Friends May Equal Better Grades, Study Suggests

USA Today /HealthDay (6/13, Preidt) reported, "School friends may play a major role in your teen's academic success, a new study" conducted by Melissa R. Witkow, an assistant professor of psychology at Willamette University suggests. The study, published in the Journal of Research on Adolescence, "included 629 12th-graders in Los Angeles who filled out a questionnaire and then kept a record of activities such as time spent studying and time spent with school friends and out-of-school friends. Students with higher grade-point averages (GPAs) had more school friends than out-of-school friends."