The results indicate that heterogeneity of race and heterogeneity of family educational background can increase the achievement of children from weak educational backgrounds with no adverse effect on children from strong educational backgrounds. — James S. Coleman Copy Share Image
It is clear from all these data that the interests of teenagers are not focused around studies, and that scholastic achievement is at most… — James S. Coleman Copy Share
Schools are successful only insofar as they reduce the dependence of a child's opportunities upon his social origins. — James S. Coleman Copy Share
Children from a given family background, when put in schools of different social compositions, will achieve at quite different levels. — James S. Coleman Copy Share
For to change the norms, the very foci of attention, of a cultural system is a difficult task - far more complex than that… — James S. Coleman Copy Share
The higher the social class of other students the higher any given student's achievement. — James S. Coleman Copy Share
Particular individuals who might never consider dropping out if they were in a different high school might decide to drop out if they attended… — James S. Coleman Copy Share
The present structure of rewards in high schools produces a response on the part of an adolescent social system which effectively impedes the process… — James S. Coleman Copy Share
A child's learning is a function more of the characteristics of his classmates than those of the teacher. — James S. Coleman Copy Share
The educational resources provided by a child's fellow students are more important for his achievement than are the resources provided by the school board. — James S. Coleman Copy Share
It is one thing to take as a given that approximately 70 percent of an entering high school freshman class will not attend college,… — James S. Coleman Copy Share
Cultural dominance of middle-class norms prevail in middle-class schools with a teacher teaching toward those standards and with students striving to maintain those standards. — James S. Coleman Copy Share
In every school, more boys wanted to be remembered as a star athlete than as a brilliant student. — James S. Coleman Copy Share
As an example, one of the schools I have been studying is too small to compete effectively in most sports, but participates with vigor… — James S. Coleman Copy Share
There are many examples in high schools which show something about the effects such competition might have. — James S. Coleman Copy Share
The results indicate that heterogeneity of race and heterogeneity of family educational background can increase the achievement of children from weak educational backgrounds with… — James S. Coleman Copy Share
