High schools Quotes by James S. Coleman

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

Schools are successful only insofar as they reduce the dependence of a child's opportunities upon his social origins.

— James S. Coleman

Children from a given family background, when put in schools of different social compositions, will achieve at quite different levels.

— James S. Coleman

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

The higher the social class of other students the higher any given student's achievement.

— James S. Coleman

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

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

A child's learning is a function more of the characteristics of his classmates than those of the teacher.

— James S. Coleman

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

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

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

In every school, more boys wanted to be remembered as a star athlete than as a brilliant student.

— James S. Coleman