In every school, more boys wanted to be remembered as a star athlete than as a brilliant student.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.