Jonathan Kozol
Writer and educator, born in 1936, whose Savage Inequalities (1991) documented the gap between rich and poor school districts in America and blamed school funding by local property tax.
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Their wordssince separate schools have never been equal, any effort to drag us back to that era is just absolute betrayal of common sense and moral decency.
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Their wordsI still get mad as hell every time I read about or see first-hand the vicious inequalities that these kids face, and those inequalities are worse now than they’ve ever been.
↗Jonathan Kozol: The Forgotten Children of the South Bronx (Democracy Now!, transcript)democracynow.org 1st of 6 in this piece
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Their wordsYou know, I start with a book called Death at an Early Age, but they didn’t die as easily as I thought.
↗Jonathan Kozol: The Forgotten Children of the South Bronx (Democracy Now!, transcript)democracynow.org 2nd of 6 in this piece
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Their wordsThe crime I worry about is the massive crime of a society that viciously short-changes them year after year after year, who locks them into the most segregated public schools in the United States.
↗Jonathan Kozol: The Forgotten Children of the South Bronx (Democracy Now!, transcript)democracynow.org 3rd of 6 in this piece
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Their wordsvouchers are the worst idea that has come into the public education debate in my adult lifetime.
↗Jonathan Kozol: The Forgotten Children of the South Bronx (Democracy Now!, transcript)democracynow.org 4th of 6 in this piece
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Their wordsVouchers have the historical origin in Southern segregationists.
↗Jonathan Kozol: The Forgotten Children of the South Bronx (Democracy Now!, transcript)democracynow.org 5th of 6 in this piece
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Their wordsSo, essentially, what vouchers amount to are a triage solution.
↗Jonathan Kozol: The Forgotten Children of the South Bronx (Democracy Now!, transcript)democracynow.org 6th of 6 in this piece
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Their wordsthe property tax is the decisive force in shaping inequality.
↗Savage Inequalities (HarperPerennial, 1992 printing of the 1991 book)archive.org All 3 from this book
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Their wordsSo it is that inequality, once it is accepted, grows contagious.
↗Savage Inequalities (HarperPerennial, 1992 printing of the 1991 book)archive.org All 3 from this book
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Their wordsEqual funding for unequal needs is not equality.
↗Savage Inequalities (HarperPerennial, 1992 printing of the 1991 book)archive.org All 3 from this book