Quotes by James S. Coleman - Page 1

The higher the social class of other students the higher any given student's achievement.
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Achievement
Class
Given
Higher
Social
Social Class
Students
Any
Student
Other
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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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Athlete
Brilliant
Remembered
School
Stars
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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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Learning
Teacher
Characteristics
Children
Classmates
Function
More
Child
Those
His
Than
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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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Effects
Examples
High Schools
Schools
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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
Dependence
School
Successful
Insofar
Opportunities
Origins
Reduce
Schools
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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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Achieve
Children
Different
Different Levels
Family Background
Levels
School
Family Will Children
Background
Family Children Will
Schools
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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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Challenges
Culture
Educational
Inevitable
Irresponsibility
Refuse
Serious
Accept
Adolescent
Challenge
Poses
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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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Achievement
Children
Educational
Resources
School
School Board
Board
Fellow
Fellow Students
Provided
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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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Boots
Process
Response
Rewards
School
Structure
Adolescent
Effectively
High Schools
Present
Produces
Schools
Social System
System
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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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Sports
Contests
Example
School
Vigor
Years
Compete
Each Year
Effectively
Schools
Studying
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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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Teacher
Dominance
School
Standards
Teaching
Cultural
Maintain
Norms
Striving
Prevail
Schools
Toward
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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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Attitudes
Complex
Cultural
Difficult Task
Interests
Norms
Task
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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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Achievement
Average
School
Above
Achievements
Easily
Maintained
Norms
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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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Girl
Boys
School
Attended
Boys And Girls
Consider
Drop
School Never High School
Individuals
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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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Children
Entitlement
Metropolitan
Propose
School
Should Have
Attend
District
Funds
Per
Pupil
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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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Achievement
Class
Grades
Position
Raises
Ranking
Relative
Student
Effect
Extra
Thus
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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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Achievement
Data
Eye
Focused
Importance
Prestige
Teenager
Adolescent
Interests
Minor
Scholastic
Status
Studies
Teenagers
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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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Achievement
Adverse
Children
Educational
Increase
Results
Strong
Weak
Background
Indicate
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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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Opportunity
Children
Class
College
Curriculum
Entering
Freshman
Given
High School
One Thing
Particular
Percent
School
Child
Approximately
Assign
Attend
Closes
Designed
High
Freshman Class
Off
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