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Teachers, parents trump peers in keeping teens engaged in school
March 20, 2012
ANN ARBOR, Mich.—Teachers and parents matter more than peers in keeping adolescents engaged in school, according to a new study that counters the widespread belief that peers matter most in the lives of adolescents.