Cited: Tan‚ Amy. “Mother Tongue” Originally Published as “Under Western Eyes” Three Penny Review‚ 1990‚ pp. 315-320. Print. Kozol‚ Jonathan. “Illiterate America” Anchor Press/ Doubleday Publication. Garden City‚ New York‚ 1985. Print. Roman‚ Sarah Poff. “Illiteracy and Older Adults: Individual and Societal Implications.” Educational Gerontology 30.2 (2004): 79-93. Academic
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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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distinction between the classes in America. The pursuit of happiness is limited to those who adapt and conform‚ as well as requiring a set of skills in order to remain competitive in the job market. In “Class in America: Myths and Realities‚” Gregory Mantsios describes the myths and their corresponding realities in America. A myth that was given claims that any American‚ given the right opportunities‚ can become a successful millionaire through enough hard work‚ sacrifice‚ and perseverance (283). This
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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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We live in a world where materialism has never been so advertised. The past hundred of years have shown the evolution of the American dream. It has gone from simply living a stress free and sustainable life to having the aspirations of buying a house‚ making good money‚ and the opportunity of upward social mobility. American society preaches that everybody has equal opportunity to achieve the American dream. Although this claim is widespread among the American society and even the government‚ it
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Social Class and the Hidden Curriculum In the essay Social Class and the Hidden Curriculum of Work‚ by Jean Anyon‚ the education of five different schools with four different economic classes is examined. The samples examined were two working-class schools‚ one middle-class school‚ one affluent professional school‚ and one executive elite school. The author compares the five sample schools’ curriculums and shares his findings in detail. The first schools he writes about are the two working-class
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might connect to other assignments‚ or what the idea is that lies behind the procedure or gives it coherence and perhaps meaning or significance” (Anyon 167). Schools in working-class neighborhoods are not receiving work that develops one’s analytical intellectual skills‚ ability to understand concepts‚ and applications of concepts to solve problems. Anyon proves how affluent communities have more opportunities than people from low socio-economic backgrounds. He also proves how “exclusion from the pond”
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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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