Schools are successful only insofar as they reduce the dependence of a child's opportunities upon his social origins.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.