Jonathan Kozol

The effects that illiteracy has range from embarrassment to low self-esteem as well as high crime rates. Illiteracy seems to have an even more devastating effect in the lower income communities. Based on that, Johnathan Kozol wrote “The Human Cost of an Illiterate Society,” that was an article in Illiterate America (1985) to show how illiteracy lowers people’s quality of life, reduce the education, and prevents them take part in democratic society fully. Negative effects of illiteracy in…

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…

people can be analyzed in a number of ways. Jonathan Kozol, in his book Savage Inequalities: Children in America’s Schools devotes his research to the divide between classes and races within the educational institution. The primary depth of his work lies in visits to an East St. Louis public school and a New York public school (Kozol 262, 265). These two environments – starkly contrasted in their financial, racial, and educational structures – allow Kozol to explain a form of institutional…

students they are teaching. The scholars whose literature and research that will comprise this paper include Dr. Jonathan Kozol, Nancie Atwell, and a compilement of research presented by Steven Zemelman, Harvey Daniels, and Arthur Hyde. For twenty-five years, Dr. Kozol studied, worked with, and became a family with numerous families living in the inner cities of New York. Among his…

day. Struggling while getting an education is really complicated; students and professors are dealing with lots of setbacks along their journey to meet their goals. English professors at different universities like, Mark Edmundson, Gerald Graff, Jonathan Kozol, all believe that America needs a much more efficient educational system. They provide their own ideas and perspectives towards issues in education. In the excerpt “On The Use of a Liberal Education: As Lite Entertainment for Bored…

Grace” is an excerpt by Jonathan Kozol from his full book, Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation. This excerpt is about Kozol himself, who tours a large and poor area called the South Bronx, a perilous area in New York that is busy with crime and poverty, with a lively seven year old boy named Cliffie. As he spends time communicating and walking with Cliffie, Kozol recognizes the severe difference between how the poor and rich people are served. Kozol, an activist,…

Anthony Martin English 111 Section 58C 15 Oct. 2014 Professor Howard “Fremont High School” by Jonathan Kozol is a report that centers on the high school’s many problems. Problems that vary anywhere between bathroom sanitation to how the school itself is actually ran. Kozol talked to student and faculty alike to try and figure out some answers as well as doing some research on his own during the report. By the end of his visit at Fremont High School he was worried for the students who were not…

Grace, is by Jonathan Kozol. The story about a boy he met in a really poor place. But we will get to that later. Kozol is an educator, writer , and activist. He has spent most of his adult life working with, and writing about what a lot of people ignore. The poor, illiterate, and the homeless one. Now going back to what the story about, the story, Amazing Grace, is about Kozol visiting another poor place, south Bronx. South Bronx was not always a bad place, but that’s for later. While Kozol was…

subjects of Math, English, Science, and History? According to sociologist Doctor James W. Loewen and award winning writer Jonathan Kozol, classism is to blame. Loewen believes that history textbooks should take some of the blame for student’s ignorance of inequality within education, while Kozol believes it is ignorance from well educated people that are to blame. Although Loewen and Kozol are correct in citing classism as a problem in the education system, little has been done to absolve…

After reading an article called, ”Savage Inequalities: Children in America’s Schools,” by Jonathan Kozol it was quite sad how people lived in such inhumane conditions. The reason is in the article it talked about kids had a higher risk of getting asthma because they were exposed to raw sewage, as well as, at times when there was too much raw sewage so they weren’t even able to go to school. However, I believe the saddest part of the article was when they finished describing the school and…