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christmas Jonathan Kozol

Jonathan Kozol | christmas

I beg people not to accept the seasonal ritual of well-timed charity on Christmas Eve. It’s blasphemy.

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Jonathan Kozol teacher

Jonathan Kozol | teacher

The contrasts between what is spent today to educate a child in the poorest New York City neighborhoods, where teacher salaries are often even lower than the city averages, and spending levels in the wealthiest suburban areas are daunting challenges to any hope New Yorkers might retain that even semblances of fairness still prevail.

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Jonathan Kozol success

Jonathan Kozol | success

By far the most important factor in the success or failure of any school, far more important than tests or standards or business-model methods of accountability, is simply attracting the best-educated, most exciting young people into urban schools and keeping them there.

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Jonathan Kozol society

Jonathan Kozol | society

The primary victims of Katrina, those who were given the least help by the government, those rescued last or not at all, were overwhelmingly people of color largely hidden from the mainstream of society.

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Jonathan Kozol society

Jonathan Kozol | society

If you grow up in the South Bronx today or in south-central Los Angeles or Pittsburgh or Philadelphia, you quickly come to understand that you have been set apart and that there’s no will in this society to bring you back into the mainstream.

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Jonathan Kozol music

Jonathan Kozol | music

But for the children of the poorest people we’re stripping the curriculum, removing the arts and music, and drilling the children into useful labor. We’re not valuing a child for the time in which she actually is a child.

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Jonathan Kozol money

Jonathan Kozol | money

The inequalities are greater now than in ’92. Some states have equalized per-pupil spending but they set the ‘equal level’ very low, so that wealthy districts simply raise extra money privately.

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Jonathan Kozol learning

Jonathan Kozol | learning

No Child Left Behind’s fourth-grade gains aren’t learning gains, they’re testing gains. That’s why they don’t last. The law is a distraction from things that really count.

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Jonathan Kozol knowledge

Jonathan Kozol | knowledge

So long as these kinds of inequalities persist, all of us who are given expensive educations have to live with the knowledge that our victories are contaminated because the game has been rigged to our advantage.

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hope Jonathan Kozol

Jonathan Kozol | hope

The contrasts between what is spent today to educate a child in the poorest New York City neighborhoods, where teacher salaries are often even lower than the city averages, and spending levels in the wealthiest suburban areas are daunting challenges to any hope New Yorkers might retain that even semblances of fairness still prevail.

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