In his book‚ “The Shame of the Nation”‚ Jonathan Kozol outlines core inequalities in the American educational system. According to Kozol although great steps were made in the 1960s and 1970s to integrate schools‚ by the end of the 1980s schools had begun to re-segregate. In inner cities such as Chicago‚ eighty-seven percent of children enrolled in public schools were either black or Hispanic‚ and only ten percent were white (page#). It seems that there are many different factors contributing to the
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“Amazing Grace” by Jonathan Kozol. Kozol went to the South Bronx and met a little boy named Cliffie. Kozol was taken by Cliffie on a walk in the neighborhood. He learnt that this city is harsh. There are lots of meanings in this story‚ this story shows that everyone struggles with something in their life right now. Everyone struggles‚ therefore sometimes people are sad and stressed. In Amazing Grace Cliffie was telling to Kozol how once he gave homeless man his pizza‚ kozol asked “Did your parents
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Melissa Galindo English 96 Marc Scott OCT/5/2014 Hitting them hardest when they’re small The Shame of the Nation was written in 2005 by author Jonathan Kozol. In this book he discusses how underprivileged children in lower-income school districts are treated differently than the children in middle-class school districts. The middle-class children have easy access to pre-school but very few children in the lower-classes have access to pre-school. As a result‚ when lower-classes
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In Savage Inequalities by Jonathan Kozol claims that the ways these schools are funded continues to allow inequalities. The way schools are funded depends on the area and the neighborhood schools reside and the value of the area. As for instant schools that resides in the poorest district receives less amount of money per student from legislative grants‚ while schools that resides in the richest districts receives so much more money. Money that’s reserved for fighting drug abuse and illiteracy in
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Book talk Savage Inequalities: Children in America’s Schools by Jonathan Kozol The Author The first surprising impulse‚ Jonathan Kozol is a White. The point to be made is that given the content‚ his identity is surprising; but it is also a good thing‚ because he is concerned with the larger picture‚ which is USA. Kozol is an American Educationalist born in Boston‚ and him being an insider‚ for me an outsider‚ makes the matter believable. He is a great writer‚ well known for several works such
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‘Other People’s Children’ by Jonathan Kozol In his writing about the ‘Other People’s Children’‚ Jonathan describes the views that people gives to those children who study in the abandoned schools that they view as educationally inferior. He discloses the argument from many who consider these children not to qualify for any post high school education. Therefore‚ the only solution for these inner-city school children is to acquire training for low-level jobs that they will eventually do. They are not
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Young Teacher by Jonathan Kozol‚ I believe was a good book overall for all readers with just a few small points that I thought needed improvement. When reading this book‚ I thought Kozol made very strong points about education and being a student going into the teaching field‚ I believe all young teachers should read this book. Although it was written in letter form to an elementary teacher‚ the issues and discussions that take place throughout the book apply to all levels of education. Starting with
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Knowledge is an effective factor in which human society relies on. Throughout history‚ those who were knowledgeable were well-respected‚ honored and revered. Author Jonathan Kozol writes his essay‚ “The Human Cost of an Illiterate Society‚” to project the importance of knowledge and to explain that without it‚ one can suffer disastrous repercussions. He highlights real-life examples of how people suffer as a result of chronic illiteracy‚ and his entire essay is an advocacy for knowledge and literacy
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Education is a fundamental principle of The United States of America: a building block of this country. All American children are required to attend school beginning at a young age and continue until they reach early adulthood. In today’s society it is even stressed to the younger generation that continuing their education to a higher level is critical to their ability to be successful in the world. Current issues in the education system have become a primary social and political problem in this
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Millions of individuals are discriminated against based on features beyond their control‚ including race‚ gender‚ religion‚ and socioeconomic status. In Jonathan Kozol’s Savage Inequalities‚ the writer illustrates the extreme poverty in St. Louis‚ describing: ...Sewage‚ which is :flowing from collapsed pipes and dysfunctional pumping stations‚ has also flooded basements all over the city...a blackened lot
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