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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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    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 are finally able to attend school‚ they are

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    educational system presents a real and prevalent problem often overlooked by many citizens and political leaders. In Shame of the Nation‚ Jonathan Kozol details his astounding experiences in these schools‚ where black and Hispanic students represent a majority of the student population despite the Brown decision calling for the integration. In Chapter 2‚ Kozol recaps and reflects on his experiences in the South Bronx‚ highlighting the lack of integration and adequate resources in apartheid schools

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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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    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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    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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