Study Suggests Bullying Atmosphere May Hurt Test Scores

The Los Angeles Times (8/12, Stein) reports that a study recently presented at the American Psychological Association's annual conference found that "a school's bullying climate may be linked with lower overall test scores." The survey of "7,304 ninth-grade students and 2,918 teachers who were randomly chosen from 284 high schools in Virginia" found that schools with greater bullying had "passing rates on standardized tests in such subjects as algebra, Earth science and world history [that] were 3% to 6% lower."Facilities