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Re:Teacher Effects on Student Achievement and Height: A Caut... by joshuaheard on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @12:07PM (#21649663)
This might be true for social and cultural learning, but I doubt their peers are teaching them math or history, which is probably what the educators are interested in.
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Re:Teacher Effects on Student Achievement and Height: A Caut... by larnmar on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @05:12PM (#21652680)
No, but their peers influence behaviour, and behaviour has a strong influence on whether you learn anything in school (plus other important things like whether you wind up in jail or on drugs or pregnant at fourteen).
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