Baltimore Sun, July 25, 2016: 50 years after the Coleman Report

"Fifty years ago this month, the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare rocked the nation's education establishment by releasing an 800-page report by James Coleman, a little known Johns Hopkins professor, and his team of researchers finding that the socioeconomic status of a child's family and peers are better predictors of academic success than actual schooling."