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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.

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In every school, more boys wanted to be remembered as a star athlete than as a brilliant student.

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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 minor importance in giving status or prestige to an adolescent in the eyes of other adolescents.

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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 to assign a particular child to a curriculum designed for that 70 percent closes off for that child the opportunity to attend college.

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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 school where many boys and girls did so.

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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.

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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 education.

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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 adverse effect on children from strong educational backgrounds.

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There are many examples in high schools which show something about the effects such competition might have.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Sociologist

Born: May 12th, 1926

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