Unequal Opportunities in the Large Inner-City High School

Abstract

When the problems that easily surface in any assemblage of three or four thousand students intersect with conditions normal to the con temporary inner city, a turbulence develops in the large inner-city high school that is difficult to resolve. Levine believes that we can make passage through such schools less rough and more attractive for young people, but "the very existence of these schools reveals more than we would like to admit about the ways we perceive and evaluate disadvantaged persons in our school and our society."