All James S. Coleman Quotes
- If we refuse to accept as inevitable the irresponsibility and educational unconcern of the adolescent culture, then this poses a serious challenge. Accept
- 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. Achievement
- 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. Class
- Schools are successful only insofar as they reduce the dependence of a child's opportunities upon his social origins. Child
- The higher the social class of other students the higher any given student's achievement. Achievement
- As an example, one of the schools I have been studying is too small to compete effectively in most sports, but participates with vigor each… Been
- In every school, more boys wanted to be remembered as a star athlete than as a brilliant student. Athlete
- The present structure of rewards in high schools produces a response on the part of an adolescent social system which effectively impedes the process of… Adolescent
- Children from a given family background, when put in schools of different social compositions, will achieve at quite different levels. Achieve
- I'd propose that each central-city child should have an entitlement from the state to attend any school in the metropolitan area outside his own district… Any
- 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… Achievement
- It is clear from all these data that the interests of teenagers are not focused around studies, and that scholastic achievement is at most of… Achievement
- It is one thing to take as a given that approximately 70 percent of an entering high school freshman class will not attend college, but… Approximately
- Particular individuals who might never consider dropping out if they were in a different high school might decide to drop out if they attended a… Attended
- 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… Achievement
- A child's learning is a function more of the characteristics of his classmates than those of the teacher. Characteristics
- Grades are almost completely relative, in effect ranking students relative to others in their class. Thus extra achievement by one student not only raises his… Achievement
- There are many examples in high schools which show something about the effects such competition might have. Competition
- For to change the norms, the very foci of attention, of a cultural system is a difficult task - far more complex than that of… Attention