In a high school, the norms act to hold down the achievements of those who are above average, so that the school's demands will be at a level easily maintained by the majority. — 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 Image
Schools are successful only insofar as they reduce the dependence of a child's opportunities upon his social origins. — James S. Coleman Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
The higher the social class of other students the higher any given student's achievement. — James S. Coleman Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
A child's learning is a function more of the characteristics of his classmates than those of the teacher. — James S. Coleman Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
In every school, more boys wanted to be remembered as a star athlete than as a brilliant student. — James S. Coleman Copy Share Image
