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

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

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.

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.

They say they will move away or [allow their children to] transfer [to private schools] if the referendum does not pass.