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A child's learning is a function more of the characteristics of his classmates than those of the teacher.

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The higher the social class of other students the higher any given student's achievement.

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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 year in the state music contests.

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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.

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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 position, but in effect lowers the position of others.

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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.

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Schools are successful only insofar as they reduce the dependence of a child's opportunities upon his social origins.

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Children from a given family background, when put in schools of different social compositions, will achieve at quite different levels.

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For to change the norms, the very foci of attention, of a cultural system is a difficult task - far more complex than that of changing an individual's attitudes and interests.

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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 - with per pupil funds going with him.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Sociologist

Born: May 12th, 1926

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