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Read: Jonathan Kozols Still Separate, Still Unequal
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Response Paper #2
Due: Monday 10/30 in recitation class. Please hand in a paper. Do not email your paper.
Read: Jonathan Kozol's “Still Separate, Still Unequal”
(on UB Learns in Weekly Folder “Week 10: 10/30)
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Answer the Following:
Who is to blame for the current resegregation of American public schools, according to Kozol? Whom—or what—would you blame? To what extent would you agree that the state of inner-city schools represents “moral failure” in America? Why might it be so important to Kozol to see this in moral—and not simply in political or social—terms?
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[Student’s Name]
[Instructor’s Name]
[Class Title]
[Date]
Introduction
Education is meant to be a tool of empowerment to everyone that receives it. The knowledge shared in the education process should be equal for all that are in line to receive it eventually. Education is freshly received by children since their minds are young and active. The continued accumulation of knowledge should be made available to every child regardless of his/her originADDIN CSL_CITATION { "citationItems" : [ { "id" : "ITEM-1", "itemData" : { "DOI" : "10.1080/14616740802393890", "ISBN" : "0786714905, 9780786714902", "ISSN" : "14616742", "PMID" : "12373972", "abstract" : "Stigliz is largely concerned with concentrated economic power, and how this power can convert into political muscle. Both government and traditional news outlets are poorly equpied to explore the problem because they are already under the influence of money. Government is often unsympathetic to the issue because of revolving doors between regulatory agencies and the businesses they are intended to regulate. In addition to the problems with our democractic system, the economy as a whole is more susceptible to diminished demand and crisises when economic concentration is great.", "author" : [ { "dropping-particle" : "", "family" : "Basu", "given" : "Srimati", "non-dropping-particle" : "", "parse-names" : false, "suffix" : "" } ], "container-title" : "International Feminist Journal of Politics", "id" : "ITEM-1", "issue" : "4", "issued" : { "date-parts" : [ [ "2008" ] ] }, "page" : "495-517", "title" : "Separate and unequal", "type" : "article", "volume" : "10" }, "uris" : [ "/documents/?uuid=945e165d-fc02-4344-837d-21efaa42c7d0" ] } ], "mendeley" : { "formattedCitation" : "(Basu)", "manualFormatting" : "(Basu, 496)", "plainTextFormattedCitation" : "(Basu)", "previouslyFormattedCitation" : "(Basu)" }, "properties" : { "noteIndex" : 0 }, "schema" : "https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json" }(Basu, 496). The fight for equality in the education sector has been an ongoing battle and the situation seems to worsen due to recent resegregation in some American schools.
Causes of the Situation
Kozol explains that the main perpetrators of the resegragation in American schools is the Supreme Court and the arbiters of culture in the nation. The Supreme Court was responsible for passing the law that enforced the need for equality in American schools. The ruling was in response to the segregation that was evident in American schools within the early 19th centuryADDIN CSL_CITATION { "citationItems" : [ { "id" : "ITEM-1", "itemData" : { "ISSN" : "0017789X", "abstract" : "One of the most important legal decisions of the twentieth centuryy was the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court case Brown vs. Board of Education. This case made it a federal crime for the institution of education to segregate children on the basis of race in public schools. The intent was to challenge racial and social class inequality that created inferior classrooms and curricula for many of our nation's children. In this selection, adapted from The Shame of the Nation (2005), Jonathan Kozol examines current racial segregaion in American schools 50 years after Brown vs. Board of Education. Kozol, an award-winning writer, vistited over 60 public schools and interveiwed children, teachers, and administrators about the status of educaiton.", "author" : [ { "dropping-particle" : "", "family" : "Kozol", "given" : "Jonathan", "non-dropping-particle" : "", "parse-names" : false, "suffix" : "" } ], "container-title" : "Harper's Magazine", "id" : "ITEM-1", "issue" : "1864", "issued" : { "date-parts" : [ [ "2005" ] ] }, "page" : "1-30", "title" : "Still Separate, Still Unequal: America's Educational Apartheid", "type" : "article-journal", "volume" : "311" }, "uris" : [ "/documents/?uuid=e3055e9d-82c3-4fd8-841e-011a4cb2788f" ] } ], "mendeley" : { "formattedCitation" : "(Kozol)", "manualFormatting" : "(Kozol, 171)", "plainTextFormattedCitation" : "(Kozol)", "previouslyFormattedCitation" : "(Kozol)" }, "properties" : { "noteIndex" : 0 }, "schema" : "https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json" }(Kozol, 171). The implementation of the rule was however overemphasized when other students other than the Native American students got more priority when enrolled in their respective schools. The arbiters of culture are responsible for the growth that the resegregation process has taken place. They have done nothing to counter the effect that the resegregation has had on the Native American studentsADDIN CSL_CITATION { "citationItems" : [ { "id" : "ITEM-1", "itemData" : { "ISSN" : "0017789X", "abstract" : "One of the most important legal decisions of the twentieth centuryy was the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court case Brown vs. Board of Education. This case made it a federal crime for the institution of education to segregate children on the basis of race in public schools. The intent was to challenge racial and social class inequality that created inferior classrooms and curricula for many of our nation's children. In this selection, adapted from The Shame of the Nation (2005), Jonathan Kozol examines current racial segregaion in American schools 50 years after Brown vs. Board of Education. Kozol, an award-winning writer, vistited over 60 public schools and interveiwed children, teachers, and administrators about the status of educaiton.", "author" : [ { "dropping-particle" : "", "family" : "Kozol", "given" : "Jonathan", "non-dropping-particle" : "", "parse-names" : false, "suffix" : "" } ], "container-title" : "Harper's Magazine", "id" : "ITEM-1", "issue" : "1864", "issued" : { "date-parts" : [ [ "2005" ] ] }, "page" : "1-30", "title" : "Still Separate, Still Unequal: America's Educational Apartheid", "type" : "article-journal", "volume" : "311" }, "uris" : [ "/documents/?uuid=e3055e9d-82c3-4fd8-841e-011a4cb2788f" ] } ], "mendeley" : { "formattedCitation" : "(Kozol)", "manualFormatting" : "(Kozol, 172)", "plainTextFormattedCitation" : "(Kozol)", "previouslyFormattedCitation" : "(Kozol)" }, "properties" : { "noteIndex" : 0 }, "schema" : "https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json" }(Kozol, 172). Their lack of action has made the inequality situation worse hence foreign students are given more opportunities in the American school system than the Americans themselves.
Morality of the Matter
The state of inner city schools has evidently showed that the moral values have truly deteriorated in America. The fact that majority of the population in most inner schools consists of either Hispanic, African American or Asian students is astonishingADDIN CSL_CITATION { "citationItems" : [ { "id" : "ITEM-1", "itemData" : { "DOI" : "10.1177/0003122409357045", "ISBN" : "0003122409", "ISSN" : "0003-1224", "abstract" : "More than four decades ago, the Kerner Report chronicled the violent disturbances of the 1960s and predicted that the United States was rapidly moving toward two racially separate and unequal societies. Resulting concerns about black and white inequality form a critical chapter in the history of sociological research. Few studies, however, explore trends in racial inequality in rates of violence. Has the gap between black and white violence rates significantly narrowed since 1960 and, if so, why? Drawing on recent work on assimilation and the literature on race inequality, we develop a set of hypotheses about black-white differences in violence rates and how these rates may have changed during the past four decades. We emphasize race differe...
[Instructor’s Name]
[Class Title]
[Date]
Introduction
Education is meant to be a tool of empowerment to everyone that receives it. The knowledge shared in the education process should be equal for all that are in line to receive it eventually. Education is freshly received by children since their minds are young and active. The continued accumulation of knowledge should be made available to every child regardless of his/her originADDIN CSL_CITATION { "citationItems" : [ { "id" : "ITEM-1", "itemData" : { "DOI" : "10.1080/14616740802393890", "ISBN" : "0786714905, 9780786714902", "ISSN" : "14616742", "PMID" : "12373972", "abstract" : "Stigliz is largely concerned with concentrated economic power, and how this power can convert into political muscle. Both government and traditional news outlets are poorly equpied to explore the problem because they are already under the influence of money. Government is often unsympathetic to the issue because of revolving doors between regulatory agencies and the businesses they are intended to regulate. In addition to the problems with our democractic system, the economy as a whole is more susceptible to diminished demand and crisises when economic concentration is great.", "author" : [ { "dropping-particle" : "", "family" : "Basu", "given" : "Srimati", "non-dropping-particle" : "", "parse-names" : false, "suffix" : "" } ], "container-title" : "International Feminist Journal of Politics", "id" : "ITEM-1", "issue" : "4", "issued" : { "date-parts" : [ [ "2008" ] ] }, "page" : "495-517", "title" : "Separate and unequal", "type" : "article", "volume" : "10" }, "uris" : [ "/documents/?uuid=945e165d-fc02-4344-837d-21efaa42c7d0" ] } ], "mendeley" : { "formattedCitation" : "(Basu)", "manualFormatting" : "(Basu, 496)", "plainTextFormattedCitation" : "(Basu)", "previouslyFormattedCitation" : "(Basu)" }, "properties" : { "noteIndex" : 0 }, "schema" : "https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json" }(Basu, 496). The fight for equality in the education sector has been an ongoing battle and the situation seems to worsen due to recent resegregation in some American schools.
Causes of the Situation
Kozol explains that the main perpetrators of the resegragation in American schools is the Supreme Court and the arbiters of culture in the nation. The Supreme Court was responsible for passing the law that enforced the need for equality in American schools. The ruling was in response to the segregation that was evident in American schools within the early 19th centuryADDIN CSL_CITATION { "citationItems" : [ { "id" : "ITEM-1", "itemData" : { "ISSN" : "0017789X", "abstract" : "One of the most important legal decisions of the twentieth centuryy was the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court case Brown vs. Board of Education. This case made it a federal crime for the institution of education to segregate children on the basis of race in public schools. The intent was to challenge racial and social class inequality that created inferior classrooms and curricula for many of our nation's children. In this selection, adapted from The Shame of the Nation (2005), Jonathan Kozol examines current racial segregaion in American schools 50 years after Brown vs. Board of Education. Kozol, an award-winning writer, vistited over 60 public schools and interveiwed children, teachers, and administrators about the status of educaiton.", "author" : [ { "dropping-particle" : "", "family" : "Kozol", "given" : "Jonathan", "non-dropping-particle" : "", "parse-names" : false, "suffix" : "" } ], "container-title" : "Harper's Magazine", "id" : "ITEM-1", "issue" : "1864", "issued" : { "date-parts" : [ [ "2005" ] ] }, "page" : "1-30", "title" : "Still Separate, Still Unequal: America's Educational Apartheid", "type" : "article-journal", "volume" : "311" }, "uris" : [ "/documents/?uuid=e3055e9d-82c3-4fd8-841e-011a4cb2788f" ] } ], "mendeley" : { "formattedCitation" : "(Kozol)", "manualFormatting" : "(Kozol, 171)", "plainTextFormattedCitation" : "(Kozol)", "previouslyFormattedCitation" : "(Kozol)" }, "properties" : { "noteIndex" : 0 }, "schema" : "https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json" }(Kozol, 171). The implementation of the rule was however overemphasized when other students other than the Native American students got more priority when enrolled in their respective schools. The arbiters of culture are responsible for the growth that the resegregation process has taken place. They have done nothing to counter the effect that the resegregation has had on the Native American studentsADDIN CSL_CITATION { "citationItems" : [ { "id" : "ITEM-1", "itemData" : { "ISSN" : "0017789X", "abstract" : "One of the most important legal decisions of the twentieth centuryy was the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court case Brown vs. Board of Education. This case made it a federal crime for the institution of education to segregate children on the basis of race in public schools. The intent was to challenge racial and social class inequality that created inferior classrooms and curricula for many of our nation's children. In this selection, adapted from The Shame of the Nation (2005), Jonathan Kozol examines current racial segregaion in American schools 50 years after Brown vs. Board of Education. Kozol, an award-winning writer, vistited over 60 public schools and interveiwed children, teachers, and administrators about the status of educaiton.", "author" : [ { "dropping-particle" : "", "family" : "Kozol", "given" : "Jonathan", "non-dropping-particle" : "", "parse-names" : false, "suffix" : "" } ], "container-title" : "Harper's Magazine", "id" : "ITEM-1", "issue" : "1864", "issued" : { "date-parts" : [ [ "2005" ] ] }, "page" : "1-30", "title" : "Still Separate, Still Unequal: America's Educational Apartheid", "type" : "article-journal", "volume" : "311" }, "uris" : [ "/documents/?uuid=e3055e9d-82c3-4fd8-841e-011a4cb2788f" ] } ], "mendeley" : { "formattedCitation" : "(Kozol)", "manualFormatting" : "(Kozol, 172)", "plainTextFormattedCitation" : "(Kozol)", "previouslyFormattedCitation" : "(Kozol)" }, "properties" : { "noteIndex" : 0 }, "schema" : "https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json" }(Kozol, 172). Their lack of action has made the inequality situation worse hence foreign students are given more opportunities in the American school system than the Americans themselves.
Morality of the Matter
The state of inner city schools has evidently showed that the moral values have truly deteriorated in America. The fact that majority of the population in most inner schools consists of either Hispanic, African American or Asian students is astonishingADDIN CSL_CITATION { "citationItems" : [ { "id" : "ITEM-1", "itemData" : { "DOI" : "10.1177/0003122409357045", "ISBN" : "0003122409", "ISSN" : "0003-1224", "abstract" : "More than four decades ago, the Kerner Report chronicled the violent disturbances of the 1960s and predicted that the United States was rapidly moving toward two racially separate and unequal societies. Resulting concerns about black and white inequality form a critical chapter in the history of sociological research. Few studies, however, explore trends in racial inequality in rates of violence. Has the gap between black and white violence rates significantly narrowed since 1960 and, if so, why? Drawing on recent work on assimilation and the literature on race inequality, we develop a set of hypotheses about black-white differences in violence rates and how these rates may have changed during the past four decades. We emphasize race differe...
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