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.

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

A child's learning is a function more of the characteristics of his classmates than those of the teacher.

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.

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

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.