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.…
The facts laid out in Laura’s book make it clear that there is inequity within the schools of this country. Some that I found to be particularly disturbing include: “Black students are nearly twice as likely to be labeled ‘learning disabled’ as White students, almost twice…
For example, the education for white and black was different, the quality of curriculum was different, and even the teachers were leveled depends on its skill. The result of these has come up with the gap between black and white. White kids were learning higher education and also in a better environment with better-educated teachers. In the article, “Compared with their white peers in the city, black students lag by three and a half grade levels” (Balk Gene)” This segregated education system can be affected locally according to the state's cities like Washington, D.C; Atlanta; Charleston, S.C.; and California.…
However, we are ignorant to what is going on, or we just refuse to see the division that is occurring in America right now. In Still Separate, Still Unequal, Kozol discusses how the divide between the education that whites receive is still much better than the education that minorities receive. In Still Separate, Still Unequal, Kozol describes the many schools he visited, “Schools that were already deeply segregated twenty-five or thirty years ago are no less segregated now.” (Kozol, 202) We, as American’s like to believe that we no longer have racial tensions with black and Hispanic people, but they do still exist and it is affecting our school system.…
In Savage Inequalities, the author, Jonathan Kozol, writes about public schools not having the same consideration as suburban schools. Through the years of 1988 to 1990, Kozol went to cities like East St Louis, the Bronx, Chicago, Harlem, Jersey City, and San Antonio. He went to 30 different neighborhoods to visit schools. The conditions of these schools are very horrible; They lack heat, have limited supplies, no lab equipment, toxic fumes, and sewer backups. These conditions often lead to schools closing due to heavy rain or snow.…
It is a well known fact that the educational experience at different schools varies widely. Some schools have a great reputation for educational excellence while other schools are avoided because of their reputation for low student achievement. Two reputable sources on this topic include Jonathan Kozol’s article, “Savage Inequalities”, and Bill Moyers’ documentary, “Children in America’s Schools”. These sources discuss the causes of school inequality, which include school funding, school conditions, and demographics. One of the major causes of school inequality is the different amounts of school funding.…
People who have money are able to choose when and where they are sending their kids to study, the poor ones have no choice at all. In the Article, Still Separate, Still Unequal, Kozol also tells us about a school called Martin Luther King Jr. High School located in New York City. It was given such a name and built in a rich white neighborhood in hopes that it would draw more upper-class white students, as stated by the New York Times, “a prominent effort to integrate white, black and Hispanic students in a thriving neighborhood that held one of the city’s cultural gems.” However, 40 years later, it is a school for the poor colored students who cannot go to better schools and is an important example of how segregation is still in schools, and as described by Kozol, “It stands today as one of the nation’s most visible and problematic symbols of expectation rapidly receding and a legacy substantially betrayed” It clearly shows reluctance from wealthy people to allow their children to attend the school and the same unwillingness we can see in not helping poor…
Due to the large number of school districts and the lack of regional districts, school diversity is representative of the diversity or lack thereof in the towns themselves. Evidence of Problem Existing: Since 1989, the percentage of students attending “apartheid schools”, schools with a less than 1% Caucasian population, has…
schools struggle with diversity, South successfully has a diverse population. In the article, “How Racially diverse school can benefit all students” by Wells, describes how diversity impacts the community. Some school struggle with diversity because the authority is actually influencing racial teachings. in other words, “...school that taught them to address implicit biases related to address and cultural differences” (Wells). Which say’s, school system are teaching students to be raced or act differently towards people from different ethnic group.…
From the years of 1930’s all the way up until now in 2016, there is still separation not only based on color but location and brains (how smart they are compared to others) as well. School is school so therefore education should be accessed by anyone who wants to take advantage of it. Location holds a huge part on the different varieties of schools. The Brown v. Board of Education court case said that every student no matter what the reason shall be that every school shall be desegregated. Within Tuscaloosa nearly 1 in 3 black students attend desegregated schools while others are still in all black schools.…
When the first African American schools had no government fund, and now in 2015 the funding for minority schools are far less than that of wealthier mostly white schools we need to question who is not understanding the need for equality in the schools. When a country spends what the United States of America spends on prisons, but refuses to understand that not spending the money initially on our young for their education, we will spend that money and more on jail later. To me it is not a difficult solution, stop paying schools by taxes paid in a county and take all taxes from every were and distribute money evenly. That way every student in the United States of America has the same investment in their future. Paying educators less to teach African American children does not entice the best possible teachers to stay long term at a minority school.…
In the psychology field, specifically race and racism it is an “opportunity to gain an in-depth understanding of multiple oppression and the intricate lives of individuals predicated upon race.” A specific issue, which I would like to address would be ebony individuals living in a predominately white society. Furthermore, expressing the racial (intentional /unintentional) judgments made on African-Americans. Specifically, African-American physiques, skin tones, hair textures, and significant other attributes. In addition too, explaining how judgments are racially impacted.…
The rich schools have student enrollment whereas the minority schools just have to assume that the population is all present. Kozol observed the public Western schools like Chicago, and New York had more than 90 percent of students enrolled were African Americans or Hispanics. H used pathos when he was interviewing some of the students on how they felt about being separated from the white’s learning, and how the staff members felt about only teaching the poor minority students, rather than the rich white students, and those poverty schools are disturbing. I think the environment and the conditions have a huge impact on your learning. If you are in a bad place you are not going to be able to focus as well as if you were in a school that looked good and felt like a place to learn.…
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.…
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…