Is
the secret to improving your kids' grade be as simple as who they're friends
with? Maybe so, according to a
new
study by high school students Deanna Blanksy and friends:
In the grade point study, researchers took to the classroom to see
whether academic achievement might be as contagious as obesity. They
asked 158 eleventh-graders to go down a class roster and point out their
pals. Then they checked everyone’s report cards at the time of
the survey, and again a year later.
The researchers found that those students whose friends were outshining
them academically tended to improve their grades over the year. Whereas
those who were hanging out with academic underachievers let their grades
slide.
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