This article explores the contextual detail behind a widely used quotation about the differing impact of teachers. It finds that it originates from a single paper in the USA, and that it is unclear how the quotation arises from a very specific data set from a very specific context.
To cite this article
LORNA SHIRES (2017) It's All About the Teacher: why that 'truth' might not be all that it seems, FORUM, 59(3), 477-482. http://doi.org/10.15730/forum.2017.59.3.477
