Educators debate dress codes’ impact, with some seeing gains for student focus and others citing bias and inequity.

And while the reasons for instituting dress codes often revolve around equity and safety, research shows these policies affect students unequally, with girls and students of color ...

The debate over school dress codes is still piping hot. See what's included in most school dress codes and why some students are fighting back.

How do students express themselves through their clothing? How do dress codes affect ...

No hoodies. No do-rags. No spaghetti straps. In Chicago Public Schools, dress codes leave many students feeling slighted.

For as long as schools have policed hairstyles as part of their dress codes, some students have seen the rules as attempts to deny their cultural and religious identities. Nowhere have school ...

For as long as schools have policed hairstyles as part of their dress codes, some students have seen the rules as attempts to deny their cultural and religious identities.

Advocates say that strict school dress codes disproportionately affect students of color and that the punishments disrupt learning.

School dress code policies disproportionately affect girls, LGBTQ+ students and students of color, according to a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report released this week.

These students are protesting to demand an end to the sexism, sexualization, and sizeism that they believe is deeply rooted in the dress code which disproportionately affects young women.