Word: perring
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...several minority groups studied). To no one's surprise, he found minority children enter school at a lower achievement level than their majority counterparts, and fall further behind as their schooling progress. Coleman also discovered, again shocking few, that segregation is still the rule in U.S. schools. Sixtyfive per cent of all Negroes, and 80 per cent of all whites, attend schools filled 90 per cent by their own race...
...when Coleman studied the factors associated with low achievement. Of the four he uncovered, the least influential was schools facilities, so long used as the criterion of quality education. According to the Report, school facilities are substantially the same in all schools, minority and majority, across the country. Per pupil expenditure, curricula, all the physical trappings of education, simply do not explain why Negro children leave city schools as near-illiterates...
Some of these are matters of technique. Bowles points out, for example, that Colemen measured per pupil expenditure by dividing district expenditures by pupils per district. He thus overlooked any differing expenditures among schools in the same district, or among pupils within schools. (This distinction is possible because of the group of children by ability--Negroes are usually placed in the lowest levels.) Also, Colemen got his information about school facilities by questioning principals--not always the most objective source--rather than conducting independent studies. Both oversights could affect Colemen's conclusions about the effect of facilities on achievement...
...students are carefully chosen to represent a cross-section of metropolitan high schools, drawing almost half from public schools despite the high tuition rate of $1450. Twenty per cent of the students are on full scholarship and more are on partial scholarships...
...contrast, the Pacific Eight's top four teams total only an average 92 points a week, while the Southeastern Conference leaders total 97, the Big Ten has 81, and the Big Eight and Southwest war horses are in the paltry 70s. Only the Western Athletic Conference at 105 per week and the Missouri Valley at 101 come close...