This document discusses school uniforms and their effectiveness. It provides background on the origins of public school uniform policies in the 1980s. It also summarizes research that found uniforms do not improve student achievement, behavior, or school climate. While uniforms may reduce clothing costs and social pressures for some poorer students, the research found no clear benefits and uniforms are not effective in making schools better.

1. UNIFORMS: ARE THEY EFFECTIVE

3. School Uniform Policies in School

8. Do Uniforms Make Our Schools Better? We are aware that there are a lot of presumptions out there about school uniforms. Eight years of research was done on uniforms and it is clear that: Uniform policies are not effective. Uniforms do not make our schools better. Elementary schools have implemented uniforms at a rapid rate: 1 percent in late 1980’s to 15.5 percent by 2000, and 23 percent in 2002, middle and high schools at half of elementary schools.