- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
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
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- Nov 07, 2020
Children from a given family background, when put in schools of different social compositions, will achieve at quite different levels.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Outside
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Challenge
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we refuse to accept as inevitable the irresponsibility and educational unconcern of the adolescent culture, then this poses a serious challenge.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
In every school, more boys wanted to be remembered as a star athlete than as a brilliant student.
- Eyes
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Freshman Class
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- High School
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
Schools are successful only insofar as they reduce the dependence of a child's opportunities upon his social origins.
- Fellow Students
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Any
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- Nov 07, 2020
The higher the social class of other students the higher any given student's achievement.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020