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Spring 1968 Issue »
Social Class and Equal Educational Opportunity
Alan B. Wilson
After reviewing briefly the influence that the ideology of equal educational opportunity has had on the development of public education, the author considers the relationships between the "aggregative characteristics" of schools and the development of individual students attending these schools. In particular, he considers the relevant findings presented in the Coleman Report and in related studies. He discusses several levels at which the Coleman inference with respect to the effect of student body characteristics on academic achievement has been questioned, and uses related studies where possible to eliminate ambiguities. The author concludes by considering the problem of a theoretical rationale adequate to account for the empirical findings of the Coleman study.
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Spring 1968 Issue
Abstracts
Preface
Harold Howe II
The Concept of Equality of Educational Opportunity
James Coleman
Sources of Resistance to the Coleman Report
Daniel P. Moynihan
Research Issues
School Factors and Equal Educational Opportunity
Henry S. Dyer
Academic Motivation and Equal Educational Opportunity
Irwin Katz
Race and Equal Educational Opportunity
Thomas F. Pettigrew
Social Class and Equal Educational Opportunity
Alan B. Wilson
Policy Issues
Towards Equality of Educational Opportunity?
Samuel Bowles
Alternative Public School Systems
Kenneth B. Clark
Policy for the Public Schools
Compensation and Integration
David K. Cohen
Discussion
Implementing Equal Educational Opportunity
Report Analysis
Theodore R. Sizer
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