“During the decades after Brown v. Board of Education there was terrific progress. Tens of thousands of public schools were integrated racially. During that time the gap between black and white achievement narrowed.”
— Jonathan Kozol
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“I believe we need a national amendment which will guarantee every child in America the promise of not just an equal education but a high-quality equal education.”
— Jonathan Kozol
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“A great deal has been written in recent years about the purported lack of motivation in the children of the Negro ghettos. Little in my experience supports this, yet the phrase has been repeated endlessly, and the blame in almost all cases is placed somewhere outside the classroom.”
— Jonathan Kozol
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“I am opposed to the use of public funds for private education.”
— Jonathan Kozol
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“Apartheid education, rarely mentioned in the press or openly confronted even among once-progressive educators, is alive and well and rapidly increasing now in the United States.”
— Jonathan Kozol
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“When I was teaching in the 1960s in Boston, there was a great deal of hope in the air. Martin Luther King Jr. was alive, Malcolm X was alive; great, great leaders were emerging from the southern freedom movement.”
— Jonathan Kozol
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Category: hope
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