Read Savage Inequalities by Jonathan Kozol. Kozol examines the inequities in school financing between Urban and suburban schools‚ Chapter 3 (2 points) In 1964‚ the author‚ Jonathan Kozol‚ is a young man who works as a teacher. Like many others at the time‚ the grade school where he teaches is segregated (teaching only non-white students)‚ understaffed‚ and in poor physical condition. Kozol loses his first job as a teacher because he introduces
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In his book‚ Ordinary Resurrections: Children in the Years of Hope‚ Jonathan Kozol pulls back the veil and provides readers with a glimpse of the harsh conditions and unrelenting hope that exists in a community located in the South Bronx called Mott Haven. Mr. Kozol provides his own socially conscious and very informative view of the issues facing the children and educators in this poverty ravaged neighborhood. Just his commentary would paint a very bleak picture of the future. It is the words
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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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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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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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English 1301 October 31‚ 2011 The Human Cost of an Illiterate Society In Jonathon Kozol’s eye opening essay‚ he discusses in depth the negative effects that illiteracy has on everyone in the American society. Unfortunately illiteracy is a common problem today and is usually more prone in lower income families and is passed down through the generations. When your parents can not read or write‚ you grow up without the importance of being taught these skills and then the cycle of illiteracy
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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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AP English 3 9 December 2013 The Human Cost of an Illiterate Society Comprehension 1. Illiteracy is a danger to the democratic society because the number of eligible voters that are illiterate is by far enough to sway a vote. This could lead to the electing a president that is not as politically fit as another candidate. 2. Kozol states that‚ “The answers to these questions represent a reasonable test of our belief in the democracy to which we have been asked in a public school to swear allegiance
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