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    income. While public education has many inequalities‚ income of a child’s family affects the quality of public education‚ by segregating the poor and giving unequal resources to those who are segregated. In Savage Inequalities the author‚ Jonathan Kozol‚ investigates schools around the country to find the corruption and inequalities

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    M.‚ R. Meltzer‚ C. Miller. New Perspectives on School Integration. Philadelphia: Fortress Press‚ 1979 Harris‚ Ian M. Criteria for Evaluating School Desegregation in Milwaukee. The Journal of Negro Education‚ Vol.52‚ No.4 (Autumn‚ 1983)‚ 423-435. Kozol‚ Jonathan. Savage Inequalities: Children in America ’s Schools. New York‚ New York: Crown Publishers Inc.‚ 1992. Samuels‚ Albert L.‚ Black Colleges and the Challenge to Desegregation. Lawrence‚ Kansas: University Press of Kansas‚ 2004.

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    A Tale of Two Schools: How Poor Children Are Lost to the World Jonathan Kozol wrote a book titled Savage Inequalities: Children in America’s Schools. A Tale of Two Schools: How Poor Children Are Lost to the World is an excerpt from the book. The excerpt tells the story of two high schools in the Chicago area. The Chicago area has a variety of high schools. Du Sable High School in Chicago and New Trier High School in a Chicago suburb are at different ends of the spectrum when speaking of the

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    schools‚ even though the government abolished it several decades ago. Two articles—“Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?” by Beverly Tatum and “From Still Separate‚ Still Unequal: America’s Educational Apartheid” by Jonathan Kozol—present two opposite views on the inequality in public schools. On the one hand‚ Tatum focuses on African- American racial identity development and the role of race in classrooms with

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    with privatization of several schools. This also cuts the funds that were meant for IPS. I Read a paper that had some interesting points‚ concerning a change that’s needed beginning with the parents. The problem is that Public Schools not ethical (Kozol‚ 2013). School seems like the obvious place to teach children how to behave in a "moral” and "ethical" manner. If America’s public schools were ethical institutions‚ and if they had

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    is a moral dilemma. Kozol supports this claim by speculating what a number of tragic outcomes could be as a result of illiteracy. His purpose is to show how a person’s daily life is affected negatively by being illiterate in order to prove that illiteracy in a broad sense is a moral dilemma. Kozol’s intended audience in writing this essay would be the public. The essay made me aware of how little I initially thought about this issue in the context in which he put it. Kozol made the dangers of

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    Education and Privileges

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    Cited: Baum‚ Sandy‚ and Kathleen Payea. "Education Pays." Collegeboard. Collgeboard.com‚ 2005. Web. 16 Jan. 2013. www.collegeboard.com/prod_downloads/.../education_pays_05. pdf>. Kozol‚ Jonathan. Illiterate America. Garden City‚ NY: Anchor/Doubleday‚ 1985. Print. Illiteracy and Natural Rights. Unesco‚ 1969. Web. 13 Dec. 2012. .

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    Jonathan Kozol describes the conditions of several of America’s public schools. Between 1988 and 1990‚ Kozol visited schools in approximately 30 neighborhoods and found that there was a wide disparity in the conditions between the schools in the poorest inner-city communities and schools in the wealthier suburban communities. How can there be such huge differences within the public school system of a country which claims to provide equal opportunity for all? It becomes obvious to Kozol that many

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    being separated and in some instances instead of pushed to reach a higher level of education are being taught to get ready for the work force right after high school not having a chance on the college level. Similarities In both articles occur when Kozol and Tatum talk about racial segregation in these schools and how the parent’s educators and political powers do nothing to stop these acts for happening. (pg.

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    The Selfish Gene

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    Author: Richard Dawkins Book Criticism •“Genes cannot be selfish or unselfish‚ any more than atoms can be jealous‚ elephants abstract or biscuits teleological. This should not need mentioning‚ but Richard Dawkins’s book The Selfish Gene has succeeded in confusing a number of people about it” (Midgley). •There are many things to disagree with in the book‚ depending on one’s viewpoint. Some people may     interpret the term “selfish gene” in a     literal way‚ believing that Dawkins     thinks

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