Despite a common belief that peer pressure against high academic achievement is prevalent among black students, a study conducted by the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, shows that this usually is not the case.

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Despite a common belief that peer pressure against high academic achievement is prevalent among black students, a study conducted by the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, shows that this usually is not the case. The researchers found that, generally, black adolescents are as achievement oriented as their white counterparts. A...