Jonathan Kozol

education. Similarly, Jonathan Kozol in “Still Separate, Still Unequal: America’s Educational Apartheid” explains that the education is not equal, but rather determined by socioeconomic factors for students in rural areas and inner-city schools. In today’s modern culture, an education is the key to better opportunities if one is determined to succeed. However, the educational system of this country disproportionally treats students by socioeconomic status. Both Loewen and Kozol agree that the…

in schools even though the government abolished it several decades ago. Two articles—“Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?” by Beverly Tatum and “From Still Separate, Still Unequal: America’s Educational Apartheid” by Jonathan Kozol—present two opposite views on the desire to resolve the inequality in public education. On the other hand, Tatum focuses on African American racial identity development and the role…

In the excerpt “Amazing Grace” by Jonathan Kozol, a reporter and a activist, is about a place in New York city, called South Bronx where he explores the neighborhood around a beautiful old church called Saint Ann’s, with a charming seven year old little boy named Cliffie. In the most diseased and dangerous places in the USA, he finds grace. Cliffie shows Kozol a lot of places while eating cookies. The author chooses to share this to show how hard it is for the people, but still, they are happy.…

The Oxford English Dictionary defines the meme as an element of a Culture (taken here in the sense of civilization) can be regarded as transmitted by nongenetic means, especially through imitation. The term meme was first proposed by Richard Dawkins in The Selfish Gene and comes from an association between gene and mimesis. Dawkins also points to a close kinship with the French word same. Memes were presented by Dawkins as replicators, comparable in this respect to genes, but responsible for the…

Knowledge is an effective factor in which human society relies on. Thru history, those who were educated were well-respected, honored and valued. Author Jonathan Kozol wrote his essay, “The Human Cost of an Illiterate Society,” to project the magnitude of knowledge and to explain that without it, people can suffer disastrous outcomes. He highlights real-life examples to how people suffer and as a result this leads to severe illiteracy, and his essay is a backing for familiarity and literacy.…

In “The Allegory of the Cave,” Plato uses shadows as a metaphor to show deception and limited information. In Plato’s story, there are many prisoners in a cave. They are chained so they can’t move and all they can see are the shadows that are cast onto the wall in front of the prisoners by puppeteers. The shadows are not real objects, but the prisoners believe that they are because those shadows are all they know and see everyday. This metaphor that the shadows, illustrated by Plato, can still…

Kozol writes, “Childhood is not merely basic training for utilitarian adulthood. It should have some claims upon our mercy, not for its future value to the economic interests of competitive societies but for its present value as a perishable piece of life…

poverty” to be fixed, which is similar to how the education system views children in poverty. The poor do not have different values from society but rather have a harder time realizing that they can attain them because of their systematic exclusion. Kozol presents the disparities in education funding and resources between the wealthy and the poor. The failures of the system historically to educate these groups of marginalized identities does not mean they suffer from the…

Around the world, school-aged children experience different educational scenarios depending on their intelligence, race, and socio-economic status. Some are denied an education altogether, and others receive the poorest education that can be provided. Presently, Americans value education, and it is commonly equated with a successful career. According to recent statistics, “As of May 2012, the nationwide unemployment rates for U.S. citizens over the age of 25 by educational level were: no high…

White Public Schools vs. Minority Public Schools Are schools still segregated today? According to Jonathan Kozol’s Still Separate, Still Unequal: America’s Educational Apartheid the minority schools and the white schools are segregated. Kozol went to many different schools and interviewed different ages about segregated schools. They all said the same thing; white schools have more of advantage and the minority schools do not get the options that the whites do. The differences were segregation…