Finn and Oakes Quotes

"For example, in John Goodlad's national study of schools, reported in the book called A Place Called School students in high-ability English classes were more likely to be taught classic and modern literature provided instruction in expository writing and library research and expected to learn vocabulary that would eventually boost their scores on college entrance exams."  

~This quote from Oakes explains that the students in the the higher ability schools will do better on exams because they are able to be provided with more resources. Overall this simply proves that not everyone has access to the same education because of the amount of income their parents make and weather or not they are privileged in any way.

"To be successful heterogeneous classrooms probably need to lean toward placing students more in charge of their own evaluation- checking their own understanding and asking for and providing feedback." 

~This quote from Oakes suggests that in schools students should not be defined as numbers or letters in comparison to other classmates. Rather that they be compared to how the student once was say at like the beginning of the year. I personally really agree with this simply because everyone is a little different and people learn at their own pace and sometimes the grade that they receive may be the best that they can do even if it is not the highest number.

"The status quo is the status quo because people who have the power to make changes are comfortable with the way things are"

~This quote from Finn shows the reader that the ways things are run are by the people who have power over others and don't see anything wrong with the way things are because they are the people in power and my not know what it feels like to have that power stripped from them.