Quotes James S. Coleman

A child's learning is a function more of the characteristics...

As an example, one of the schools I have been studying is to...

Children from a given family background, when put in schools...

Cultural dominance of middle-class norms prevail in middle-c...

For to change the norms, the very foci of attention, of a cu...

Grades are almost completely relative, in effect ranking stu...

I'd propose that each central-city child should have an enti...

If we refuse to accept as inevitable the irresponsibility an...

In a high school, the norms act to hold down the achievement...

In every school, more boys wanted to be remembered as a star...

It is clear from all these data that the interests of teenag...

It is one thing to take as a given that approximately 70 per...

Particular individuals who might never consider dropping out...

Schools are successful only insofar as they reduce the depen...

The educational resources provided by a child's fellow stude...

The higher the social class of other students the higher any...

The present structure of rewards in high schools produces a ...

The results indicate that heterogeneity of race and heteroge...

There are many examples in high schools which show something...