In retrospect, the schools did not fully achieve this goal, according to some observers, because school achievement and economic outcomes are highly related to social class and family back-ground.Had the schools not existed, however, social mobility would have been further reduced. The failure of the common school to provide social mobility raises the question of the role of school in achieving equality and the question of just what the school car and cannot do affect cognitive and economic outcomes. The modem view of educational equality. which emerged in the 1950s through the 1920s. goes much further than the old view. In light of this, lames Coleman has outlined five views of in-equality of educational opportunity, the lane, Com of which parallel reconsuuctionist philosophy inequality defined by the same curriculum for all children. with the intent that school facilities be equal inequality defined in terms of the racial composition of the schools inequality defined in terms of such intangible characteristics as teacher morale and teacher expectations of students inequality based on school consequences or outcomes for students with equal backgrounds