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Culture of Life

Good Kids Make the Grade

Facts of Life

BY The Editors

November 2-8, 2008 Issue | Posted 10/28/08 at 2:54 PM

Hey Joe and Jane College, want better grades? Live cleaner and healthier lives. A new study at the University of Minnesota shows that unhealthy patterns of behavior — smoking, drinking, gambling, camping out on the Internet, and so on — clearly correlate with low grade point average. The study also showed that working a job, even a full-time one, does not negatively impact academic performance. Of course, Joe and Jane, your parents could have told you all of this. And probably did.