The World Motivation
Children from a given family background, when put in schools of different social compositions, will achieve at quite different levels.
“Children from a given family background, when put in schools of different social compositions, will achieve at quite different levels.”
Children from a given family background, when put in schools of different social compositions, will achieve at quite different levels.
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.
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.
In a high school, the norms act to hold down the achievements of those who are above average, so that the school's demands will be at a level easily maintained by the majority.
I'm a Catholic by background. I was raised in Goa, a part of India that was visited by Portuguese missionaries a few hundred years ago, which explains my last name.
This means I must pay close attention to the writing, but equally so to the scientific background - which sometimes means doing fairly involved calculations.
There is a real diversity of talent and background on the A list so as to better reflect our society in all walks. There are people who have been candidates before, Councillors, Doctors, business leaders, charity campaigners.
Why should your background be held against you? It is so short-sighted.
In every school, more boys wanted to be remembered as a star athlete than as a brilliant student.
I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.