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Schools Quotes by 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.
- 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…
- 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.
- There are many examples in high schools which show something about the effects such competition might have.
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