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" The lesson is that to a considerable degree what a school should do and can do is determined by the status and ambitions of the families being served. "
Juvenile Delinquency Control Act: Hearings Before the Special Subcommittee ... - Page 59
by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor - 1961 - 245 pages
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Youth Employment Act: Youth Conservation Corps: Hearings Before the ...

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare - 1961 - 438 pages
...being served. One lesson to be drawn from visiting a well-to-do suburb and a slum is all important for understanding American public education. That lesson...Angeles, Chicago, Detroit, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and St. Louis. In the suburban high school from which 80 percent or more of the graduates enter some...
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Annual Conference on Problems of Schools in Transition from the Educator's ...

United States Commission on Civil Rights - 1959 - 930 pages
...Is all Important for understanding American public education. The lesson is that to a considerable degree what a school should do and can do is determined by the status and ambitions of the families being served. Now, my notion is that every child, be he white or Negro, has a natural civil...
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School-home Partnership in Depressed Urban Neighborhoods

Gene Carl Fusco - 1964 - 84 pages
...in his study of school contrasts in the 10 largest cities in the Nation is that "to a considerable degree, what a school should do and can do is determined by the status and ambition of the families being served." He points to the deleterious effects on pupil motivation and...
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Left Back: A Century of Battles Over School Reform

Diane Ravitch - 2001 - 566 pages
...were out of school and out of work. What could the schools do? He maintained that "to a considerable degree what a school should do and can do is determined by the status and ambitions of the families being served " (Conant's italics). He recognized that schools in affluent suburbs were preparing...
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