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The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America
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The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America (2005) (edit title/settings)

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Over the last 15 years, the state of inner-city public schools has been in a steep and continuing decline. Since the federal courts began dismantling the landmark ruling in Brown v. Board of Education, segregation of black children has reverted to its highest level since 1968. In many... read more

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  • ““I went to Washington to challenge the soft bigotry of low expectations,” the president said in his campaign for reelection in September 2004. “It’s working. It’s making a difference.” It is one of those deadly lies, which, by sheer repetition, is at length accepted by large numbers of Americans as, perhaps, a rough approximation of the truth. But it is not the truth, and it is not an innocent misstatement of the facts. It is a devious appeasement of the heartache of the parents of the poor and, if it is not forcefully resisted and denounced, it is going to lead our nation even further in a perilous direction.”
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  • The goal was to unlock the chains that held these children within caste-and-color sequestration and divorced them from the mainstream of American society.
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  • There is something deeply hypocritical in a society that holds an inner-city child only eight years old “accountable” for her performance on a high-stakes standardized exam but does not hold the high officials of our government accountable for robbing her of what they gave their own kids six or seven years before.
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  • It is harder to convince young people they “can learn” when they are cordoned off by a society that isn’t sure they really can. That is, I am afraid, one of the most destructive and long-lasting messages a nation possibly could give its children.
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  • Racial isolation and the concentrated poverty of children in a public school go hand in hand,
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  • Schools that were already deeply segregated 25 or 30 years ago, like most of the schools I visit in the Bronx, are no less segregated now, while thousands of other schools that had been integrated either voluntarily or by the force of law have since been rapidly resegregating both in northern districts and in broad expanses of the South.
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  • Two tenths of one percentage point now marked the difference between legally enforced apartheid in the South of 1954 and socially and economically enforced apartheid in this New York City neighborhood.
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  • Virtually all the children of black and Hispanic people in the cities that I visited, both large and small, were now attending schools in which their isolation was as absolute as it had been for children in the school in which I’d started out so many years before.
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  • The four most segregated states for black students, according to the Civil Rights Project, are New York, Michigan, Illinois, and California.
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  • I also think we need to recognize that our acceptance of a dual education system will have consequences that may be no less destructive than those we have seen in the past century.
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  • I have believed for 40 years, and still believe today, that we would be an infinitely better nation if they knew each other now.
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One sunny day in April, I was sitting with my friend Pineapple at a picnic table in St. Mary's Park in the South Bronx.

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  1. Jonathan Kozol (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Crown Pub
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2005
ISBN: 1400052440
Page Count: 416

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