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• If we refuse to accept as inevitable the irresponsibility and educational unconcern of the adolescent culture, then this poses a serious challenge.
• The educational resources provided by a child's fellow students are more important for his achievement than are the resources provided by the…
• Cultural dominance of middle-class norms prevail in middle-class schools with a teacher teaching toward those standards and with students striving to maintain…
• Schools are successful only insofar as they reduce the dependence of a child's opportunities upon his social origins.
• The higher the social class of other students the higher any given student's achievement.
• As an example, one of the schools I have been studying is too small to compete effectively in most sports, but participates…
• In every school, more boys wanted to be remembered as a star athlete than as a brilliant student.
• The present structure of rewards in high schools produces a response on the part of an adolescent social system which effectively impedes…
• Children from a given family background, when put in schools of different social compositions, will achieve at quite different levels.
• I'd propose that each central-city child should have an entitlement from the state to attend any school in the metropolitan area outside…
• In a high school, the norms act to hold down the achievements of those who are above average, so that the school's…
• It is clear from all these data that the interests of teenagers are not focused around studies, and that scholastic achievement is…

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