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School Quotes by 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.
- 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.
- Schools are successful only insofar as they reduce the dependence of a child's opportunities upon his social origins.
- 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…
- 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 the process of…
- 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 his own district…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
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