Jonathan Konzol, in his article of “From Still Separate, Still Unequal: America’s Educational Apartheid” failed to talked about schools that have equal amount of students of mixed racial schools. He also failed to give examples of schools that have majority of its students are White and any other race other than Hispanics and Blacks. He only talked about public schools, and forgot to mention any private schools. Another one that Konzol failed to talked about in his article is the problems and the possible solutions to those problems, and instead he just talks about example schools and how many percent are Blacks, Hispanics, White and southeastern Asian. Though he talked about some problems that the school system faced of the unequal budget…
In his poignant essay “Still Separate, Still Unequal: America’s Educational Apartheid,” author Jonathan Kozol presents evidence to demonstrate that segregation is still a persistent problem in our education system. Kozol provides countless percentages of drastically unbalanced demographic statistics within urban schools throughout the nation. He also travels to several struggling inner-city schools to interview faculty, students and parents. Kozol uses the interviews to illustrate a vivid depiction of substandard conditions within urban schools. Overall, the subject matter throughout the essay is an emphasis on the deficient quality of education given to the children from low income families and minorities.…
Introduction The documentary Children in America’s Schools, based on Jonathan Kozol’s book titled “Savage Inequalities: Children in America’s Schools”, compares Ohio’s richest and poorest schools by exposing the monumental affects local property taxes have on the quality of education for students. Collapsed ceilings, torn textbooks and overcrowded classrooms describe the schools in the impoverished districts. The schools in wealthier districts have advanced facilities, with computer labs, Olympic sized pools, robotics labs, and advanced courses. These discrepancies are a result of local property taxes funding schools.…
James Loewen in “Land of Opportunity,” writes that social class America determines the quality of education students received. As he points out, affluent students obtained a higher education while lower class students obtains a lesser education. Similarly, Jonathan Kozol in “Still Separate, Still Unequal: America’s Educational Apartheid” explains that the education is not equal, but rather determined by socioeconomic factors for students in rural areas and inner-city schools. In today’s modern culture, an education is the key to better opportunities if one is determined to succeed. However, the educational system of this country disproportionally treats students by socioeconomic status.…
1. Use at least one theoretical perspective (Functionalist/Pluralist, Conflict/Elite) to analyze the film, Big Sky, Big Money. Which perspective do you think most effectively explains the political dynamics represented in the film? Why?…
Summary and Response In the article “The Facts about the Achievement Gap”, author Diane Ravitch shows that privatization in the United States education system is a direct response to the achievement gap between white students and minorities. She is a “researcher of education at New York University” (prologue), and once served “in the U.S. department of education from 1991 to 1993” (prologue). Her personal experience in the field of education has shown that “privatization inevitably means deregulation, greater segregation, and less equality” (361). Some major key points that challenge the achievement gap consist of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), and socio-economics.…
Jonathan Kozol, author of Savage Inequalities, began his teaching career in an overpopulated, segregated school where he was fired for innovation. Kozol became interested in illiteracy within the United States, but realized that he wanted to regain focus on children. This led him to visit poor schools across the country to explore the truth of the inequalities in American schools. Kozol's experience reals that the American public education system is so discriminatory that it is destroying children's change for a successful future by setting them up for failure.…
From Still separate, Still Unequal: America’s Educational Apartheid: Segregation, funding, lack of programs, and gaps between races. 2. Facts About the Achievement Gap: Segregation, lack of programs, and gaps between races. How collaboration can help fix things. 3.…
In New York City Nicole Tortoriello looks at the statistics of the life of a minority. Tortoriello goes more into detail when specifically hitting on the difference of treatment when it comes to school. Tortoriello hits on the idea that not all people are given equal rights or benefits especially if you’re a minority. The journal even stated the idea that low-income families, as long as their child is American (primarily white), can get an accepted way more than a minority ever could hope to. The key factors are how high school can be so demanding, the shift of minority groups and the…
Neighborhoods are even segregated, we have seen this all the time, there are neighborhoods that are only for hispanics, blacks, asian, white. Making the schools in these neighborhoods diverse but not equal. Jonathan Kozol used rhetorical strategies very well to show the reader how schools today are still segregated. The students are treated unequally because of their skin color and their race. To prove this his argument Kozol used statistics, percentages, stories from the students and teachers at low-income schools to have an emotional appeal and his own credibility.…
The ‘equality’ looked good on paper but reality was rarely the case, especially when it came to schools. Substandard buildings, supplies, and transportation often made the educational experience for African Americans inferior to whites. It wasn’t until 1954 with the ruling of Brown v. Board of Education that segregation in schools was made unconstitutional (Document 2), based on the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment. In order to become integrated, some schools were forced to resort to bussing their students in from other areas (Document 3a) – although the ruling took care of ‘de jure’ integration of society (that which is imposed by the federal court system), it did little to immediately reverse the ‘de facto’ segregation of society, especially in the South (‘de facto’ implies that which has become the unwritten law of social classes and segregated residential areas themselves). Long-term effects of the decision were more dramatic, however.…
After eighth grade, whites went on to high school. By not allowing black children to attend their schools guaranteed their children would not be sitting next to black boys and girls. “A perfectly stupid race could never rise to a very high plane.” (75) Even today many children are not afforded quality education due to the same struggles: finances and demographics.…
Kozol also talks about the racism going on between Blacks, Hispanics and Whites in schools around Chicago, Washington D.C., St. Louis, Philadelphia and Cleveland, Los Angeles, Detroit, Baltimore and New York City. Kozol would go interview some of the new students that are being put into the segregated schools to get a sense of how the students felt about it and so he could also learn a bit more on how differently they are treated. These students aren 't put in the classes they want, they aren 't put in the same classes as the white students. One of the children said the wanted to be in AP classes but couldn 't because her principle said she needed to be in a sewing class because the owners of the factories need laborers. Kozol brings up something that i couldn 't get out of my head, in the reading Kozol says, "effort to address racial segregation openly is the refusal of most major arbiters of…
In America the inner city school system is very poor compared to the urban school system. Inner city schools are unjust because the class sizes are too big, they lack funding, and lack support for special education programs such as 504’s and IEP’s. The class sizes of inner city schools are overpopulated and crowded. Many classes in inner city schools are crowded, specifically at Miles D Elementary in Chicago.…
Education in the United States went through great reform in the late 1800s to 1900s. Change didn’t come about easy and educational equality is still a popular debate today. Although educational change was talked about and seemingly in progress, equality still had a long way to go. Differences in racial and social classes became prevalent especially through schooling. Black Americans were limited and restrained with obstacles such as what schools they were allowed to attend, what classes they were to take, and by what the teachers were taught to educate on.…