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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.
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.
It is one thing to take as a given that approximately 70 percent of an entering high school freshman class will not attend college, but to assign a particular child to a curriculum designed for that 70 percent closes off for that child the opportunity to attend college.
Grades are almost completely relative, in effect ranking students relative to others in their class. Thus extra achievement by one student not only raises his position, but in effect lowers the position of others.
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.
Children from a given family background, when put in schools of different social compositions, will achieve at quite different levels.
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.
If we refuse to accept as inevitable the irresponsibility and educational unconcern of the adolescent culture, then this poses a serious challenge.
In every school, more boys wanted to be remembered as a star athlete than as a brilliant student.
Schools are successful only insofar as they reduce the dependence of a child's opportunities upon his social origins.
A child's learning is a function more of the characteristics of his classmates than those of the teacher.
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.
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.
