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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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"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."
"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."
"There are many examples in high schools which show something about the effects such competition might have."
"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."
"A child's learning is a function more of the characteristics of his classmates than those of the teacher."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Children from a given family background, when put in schools of different social compositions, will achieve at quite different levels."
"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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