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Education and Health In 1988, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) created a department focused on young people and education, called the Division of Adolescent and School Health (DASH). DASH compiles data on academic success and health, and, perhaps unsurprisingly, it has consistently found that healthier students do better academically. By “health,” though, DASH hasn’t limited its investigations to simply whether or how often students get sick. That’s a part of it, for sure. But researchers look carefully at a list of “health-risk

Students who take part in risky behaviors (like fights) generally perform less well in school than students who don't.

What Is Health, Anyway?

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