The excerpt “Amazing Grace” from the whole book Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation by Jonathan Kozol‚ introduces a little boy‚ Cliffie‚ who lives in South Bronx‚ New York. Cliffie takes Kozol on a tour through the poor and dangerous city from St. Ann’s Church. The government clumped all the people in poverty in the small area. Many drugs and diseases flowed through their environment‚ yet the kids managed to stay very happy and live the best of their lives. Kozel explains
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segregation of poor social class in South Bronx. He tries to explain the living condition of these poor people‚ and the inequality between them. On top of this‚ he also described that the public administration tried to abandoned this neighborhood. Kozol divided the book into six chapters. The whole book organized through interview and interaction with children‚ teacher and others people such as pastor and nurse. Moving from individual experience through interview in order to criticize the government
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and The Hidden Curriculum of Work‚” Jean Anyon talks about contrasting social-class school systems and the differing curriculum offered in each. The different social-class school systems consist of working-class‚ middle-class‚ affluent professional‚ and executive elite. As Anyon goes into detail about the interactions in the classroom between the teachers and the students‚ it seems that the higher the social-class‚ the better the education provided is. Anyon states that “[…] students in different
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Cited: Mantsios‚ Gregory. “Class in America – 2003.” The Norton Field Guide to Writing With Readings. Ed. Marilyn Moller. London: Norton & Company Ltd‚. 2010. 699-717. Print.
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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 students
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Jonathan Kozol In Savage Inequalities‚ Jonathan Kozol describes the conditions of several of America’s public schools. Kozol visited schools in 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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Jonathan Kozol‚ is an award–winning writer‚ public lecturer‚ educator‚ and activist; he is best known for his books on public education in the United States. Kozol wrote an article from “Still Separate‚ Still Unequal: America’s Educational Apartheid” and illustrates a stern reality of the unequal attention given to urban and suburban schools. The legendary Supreme Court case Brown v Board of Education ended segregation in public schools in America because the Court determined that separate but equal
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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‚ 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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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 re-segregating of schools. Kozol describes
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