Having a formal education is one of the greatest contributors to individual empowerment. Education is the gateway in which the majority of people find professional success. We are taught that if we do well in school then more options will be available to us later in life. However, I have concluded that the American school system does not empower its students that come from low social backgrounds or specific minorities as evident in Jonathan Kozol and Jean Anyon’s essays on education.
Brown vs Board was a historic decision in American history that reversed the claim made in Plessy vs Ferguson that “separate is equal”. It was proven that schools for white student offered better education, had better resources and better facilities as opposed to schools for colored people. This decision called for a desegregation of schools in hopes that it would amount to equal education for students of every race. However, the process of desegregating the school has been …show more content…
In his essay Still Separate, Still Unequal, Harvard graduate and educational critic Jonathan Kozol explores the process of resegregation that has been occurring in American schools. Kozol writes: “Schools that were already deeply segregated twenty-five or thirty years ago are no less segregated now, while thousands of other schools around the country that had been integrated either voluntarily or by the force of law have since been rapidly resegregating” (P1). In the poorest of neighborhoods, he reports school demographics where blacks and Hispanics make up more than 90% of the population. Any belief that facilities are consistent from school to school
Brown vs Board was a historic decision in American history that reversed the claim made in Plessy vs Ferguson that “separate is equal”. It was proven that schools for white student offered better education, had better resources and better facilities as opposed to schools for colored people. This decision called for a desegregation of schools in hopes that it would amount to equal education for students of every race. However, the process of desegregating the school has been …show more content…
In his essay Still Separate, Still Unequal, Harvard graduate and educational critic Jonathan Kozol explores the process of resegregation that has been occurring in American schools. Kozol writes: “Schools that were already deeply segregated twenty-five or thirty years ago are no less segregated now, while thousands of other schools around the country that had been integrated either voluntarily or by the force of law have since been rapidly resegregating” (P1). In the poorest of neighborhoods, he reports school demographics where blacks and Hispanics make up more than 90% of the population. Any belief that facilities are consistent from school to school