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Children From A Given Family Background, When Put In Schools Of Different Social Compositions, Will Achieve At Quite Different Levels.

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.

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.

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.

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.