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

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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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"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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