We know that segregation is evil. We know that the sickest children should not go to the worst hospitals.
Jonathan KozolThe 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.
Jonathan KozolPresident Obama still places far too much emphasis on relentless testing with standardized exams.
Jonathan KozolBut what is now encompassed by the one word (โschoolโ) are two very different kinds of institutions that, in function, finance and intention, serve entirely different roles. Both are needed for our nationโs governance. But children in one set of schools are educated to be governors; children in the other set of schools are trained for being governed. The former are given the imaginative range to mobilize ideas for economic growth; the latter are provided with the discipline to do the narrow tasks the first group will prescribe.
Jonathan Kozol