Jonathan Kozol

When I began reading Jonathan Kozol’s Amazing Grace (1995), I was struck by a quotation early on that described the South Bronx area of New York City he would further explore throughout the book: The houses in which these children live, two thirds of which are owned by the City of New York, are often as squalid as the houses of the poorest children I have visited in rural Mississippi, but there is none of the greenness and the healing sweetness of the Mississippi countryside outside their…

that is often unseen by many while poor people’s voices are infrequently heard. A child’s definition of poverty from Jonathan Kozol’s “Still Separate, Still Unequal” is, “It is like being hidden. It’s as if you have been put in a garage where, if they don’t have room for something but aren’t sure if they should throw it out, they put it where they don’t need to think of it again.” (Kozol 38) There are government programs to help pull people out of poverty, but apparently the government can only…

Urie Bronfenbrenner ecological system theory, explains how everything in a child’s environment influences how they grow and develop in their entire life span. There are five levels microsystem, mesosystem, exosystem, macrosystem, and chronosystem. This Weebly focuses on how the microsystem level can be affect if a child is in a negative environment the child is witnessing in the home. I believe at the mesosytems we can change it by we as teachers working with the families to understand where…

As I reflect back to the learning that I’ve gained thus far in English 5A I realized how broad English truly is, there is way more than I imagined to learn. As I started the semester, my first essay wasn’t the best, as I continued in English 5A I learned different ways on how to approach an academic essay with a better outcome. I acquired that a well written essay is structured properly by identifying the conversation about a topic. As I continued into the semester I was expected to use…

In the article, Kozol explains when an eight year old girl told him, “Dear Mr. Kozol, we don’t have the things you have. You have clean things. We don’t have. You have all the thing and we don’t have all the thing. Can you help us?” (pg. 351). We are all equal no matter where we come from nor what we…

The American education system is a complete mess in regards to race divisions. The educational system is in fact the main contributor to race divisions in schools. More than half of the funding for schools come from “local sources” such as property taxes, stated by Eduardo Porter. This means that poorer neighborhoods get less funding than a rich neighborhood. This gap is huge, thus giving the rich an “edge” over the poor (Porter). Whites have usually been in the United States for more…

A young girl wrote to Kozol saying, “You have all the thing and we do not have all the thing. Can you help us?” (p. 3). A principal at an overcrowded school pointed at a trash bag covering part of the collapsed ceiling, telling Kozol, “This would not happen to white children” (p. 4). In truth, parents of minority parents are thought of as people who can be discounted, and their…

segregation continues to seek its element of inequality in the lives of American citizens. While segregation is known as problem of the past, it has also shown to affect today’s society in many ways. In the essay “Still Separate, Still Unequal,” Jonathan Kozol reports on the matter of segregation occurring in today’s public schools throughout urban and suburban cities in the Unites States. Along with him, in “Rethinking Affirmative Action” David Leonhardt observes how discrimination policies…

Multicultural education is not really represent in today’s classroom. Multicultural education is very important in a child education. Multicultural education allows students to learn other classmates’ cultural backgrounds while also learning at the same time. A teachers can easily change up there lesson plans so they accommodate the students in the classroom; allow the students to learn about the histories, values, beliefs, and perspectives of people from different cultural backgrounds. Students…

Jonathan Kozol teaches us in Savage Inequalities and Fire in the Ashes that security is a luxury. Family dinners are my security. They are my security because it is normal. Going back to normal is safe, it’s a relief, it’s like coming home. Kozol shows you through his case study narratives that no one under the poverty line can live a normal happy life: a life that guarantees…