For example, Black students are much more likely to be expelled from school than white students. But that difference evaporates if you look at students from families with similar wealth and parental education. Black students are also much less likely to graduate from college than white students, but, again, the driving forces seem to be family wealth and parental education, not race. In fact, when family wealth levels are similar, Black students are more likely to graduate than whites. I worry little about attitudes that kids espouse to reporters.
Nobody wants to be the class nerd.
But motivation and achievement would be different if the fruits of the American Dream were equally accessible. As If People Mattered , by Virginia teacher Tamara Sober Giecek.