James S. Coleman

The results indicate that heterogeneity of race and heterogeneity of family educational background c ...

For to change the norms, the very foci of attention, of a cultural system is a difficult task - far ...

Schools are successful only insofar as they reduce the dependence of a child's opportunities upon hi ...

If we refuse to accept as inevitable the irresponsibility and educational unconcern of the adolescen ...

Cultural dominance of middle-class norms prevail in middle-class schools with a teacher teaching tow ...

Particular individuals who might never consider dropping out if they were in a different high school ...

Grades are almost completely relative, in effect ranking students relative to others in their class. ...

A child's learning is a function more of the characteristics of his classmates than those of the tea ...

The higher the social class of other students the higher any given student's achievement.

The educational resources provided by a child's fellow students are more important for his achieveme ...

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

Children from a given family background, when put in schools of different social compositions, will ...

The present structure of rewards in high schools produces a response on the part of an adolescent so ...

As an example, one of the schools I have been studying is too small to compete effectively in most s ...

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