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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Letters to a 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
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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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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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prove. Basically you are using this technique to avoid vagueness in your essay. When Kozol states‚ "Tragedy looms larger than farce in the United States today‚" ambiguity is apparent but he clears it up with the next few sentences by providing reasons for this declaration "Illiterate citizens seldom vote. More frequently‚ they vote for a face‚ a smile‚ or a style‚ not for a mind or character or body of beliefs" (Kozol 230). Another example is‚ "Illiterates do not buy ’no name’ products in the supermarkets
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Jonathan Kozol‚ in his essay Still Separate‚ Still Unequal‚ is proposing that many Americans that live far from major cities are under the impression that racial isolation in urban public schools has steadily diminished in more recent years. But truth be told‚ according to Kozol thousands of schools around the country that had been integrated either voluntarily or by forced o to f law have since been rapidly resegregating. According to statistics‚ Kozol found that between 85 to 95 percent of students
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In the article Still Separate‚ Still Unequal by Jonathan Kozol‚ the segregation is explained and examples are given to demonstrate that the segregation is relapsing all around our country. Kozol argues that segregation is still a big issue in our education system‚ and limits for accomplishment are being set by school districts‚ which is making the achievement gap between white and black students. A greater part of schools in urban schools have predominantly black and Hispanic populations. Kozol’s
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Week 5 Essay # 3 Reading essay The Human Cost of an Illiterate Society by Jonathan Kozol rekindles the candle of the horrors of illiteracy within us‚ a candle that has been extinguished by our hectic lives. As he quotes James Madison’s statement‚ “A people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power knowledge gives”‚ these words make us think about ourselves and the society around us. A country is run by Government. That Government is chosen by people. And one third
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"Children in America’s Schools"‚ a documentary movie based on a book by Jonathan Kozol called "Savage Inequalities: Children in America’s Schools". "Children in America’s Schools" is a documentary movie based on the Jonathan Kozol book "Savage Inequalities: Children in America’s Schools" and looks at the school system in America circa 1996. The movie describes the disparate quality of education that exists between poor and rich school districts in the United States. Entering schools in an economically
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