Tuesday, October 27, 2015

Three quotes from: 
Still Separate, Still Unequal: America’s Educational Apartheid  by Jonathan Kozol

“One of the most disheartening experiences for those who grew up in the years when Martin Luther King Jr. and Thurgood Marshall were alive is to visit public schools today that bear their names, or names of other honored leaders of the integration struggles that produced the temporary progress that took place in the three decades after Brown v. Board of Education, and to find out how many of these schools are bastions of contemporary segregation.

There is, indeed, a seemingly agreed-upon convention in much of the media today not even to use an accurate descriptor like racial segregation" in a narrative description of a segregated school. "

Even the teacher's words of praise were framed in terms consistent with the lists that had been posted on the wall. "

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