What Jonathan Kozol thinks about education
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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3 dated positions, 2000 to 2019, in their own words. Our reading of what Jonathan Kozol has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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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 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