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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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"I've also been working with the Challengers Club in the inner city of Los Angeles for 15 years now, I guess, and it's essentially an inner-city recreation club for boys and girls."

"The costermongers' boys will, I am informed, cheat their employers, but they do not steal from them."

"The boys are in such a mood that if someone introduced the Ten Commandments, they'd cut them down to seven."
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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."

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

"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."

"If we refuse to accept as inevitable the irresponsibility and educational unconcern of the adolescent culture, then this poses a serious challenge."

"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."

"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."

"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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