Research on differential teacher treatment suggests that teachers create comparably poorer learning conditions and fewer opportunities to demonstrate mastery for students with low academic achievement than for high-achieving classmates.
Her car was vandalized, and she endured the "silent hostility" of her mostly white, high-achieving classmates.
While he was an upper-80s student, he was overshadowed by his high-achieving classmates Jackie, Duke, Roy and Pee Wee.
Having attended New York City public schools, where children as early as third grade were "tracked" and worked hard to try to make it into the "smart" class, I remember seeing my classmates achieve and earn praise and wanting to rise to that level myself.
At BTEC Level Three, the proportion of female engineers was just 4% - but again they performed better than their male classmates, with 14% achieving the highest grade, as opposed to 9% of the boys.
Farhana bore down in school, achieving a 98 average at Brooklyn Technical High School, and finding that classmates considered her beautiful and exotic.
He graduated to Rumbek Secondary, studying alongside classmates who would go on to become influential in achieving South Sudan's independence.
The study also revealed that many hundreds of thousands of teenagers leave school every year without achieving adequate GCSEs, and that boys from poor, white backgrounds were falling further behind their classmates than any other identified group.
The proportion of disadvantaged children achieving level 4 in reading, writing and mathematics remains 19% below that of their more advantaged classmates.
While Mrs. Obama's parents pushed her to achieve, she says teachers, counselors and classmates often questioned her abilities and potential.
At age 21, Brady Legler has already achieved a measure of success that his classmates at Parsons the New School for Design might envy.
