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The Shame of the Nation

by Jonathan Kozol

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MikeO said: " Jonathan Kozol takes a strong stand on the corrupt school system of modern times. Children of low income neighborhoods are receiving poor educations in which are now where near the quality to those of richer neighborhoods just a few miles away. Cond Jonathan Kozol takes a strong stand on the corrupt school system of modern times. Children of low income neighborhoods are receiving poor educations in which are now where near the quality to those of richer neighborhoods just a few miles away. Conditions in these segregated low income communities attend schools with horrible learning conditions which include bad learning environments, poor teachers, and little government funding. These students are falling behind from the rest of society and they are not receiving a proper education that will set them up for the real world. In result,if students wanted to take initiative of their education and attempt to transfer to a better school, they can't. The segregated schools are further more segregated when people of a higher class receiving a better education would never switch schools to a known lower class education. Jonathan Kozol exposes this divide and what school is truly like for the students of the lower class segregated schools.
Jonathan Kozol personally explores the lower class segregated education of this country. He exposes the lack of education and shows what these schools use their time for. The issue is that there is such a lack of funding, in result there is frequent testing of the students to see where the school place. Schools with higher placement receive more funding. Due to this the teachers take most of their time preparing students for these tests and mentally convincing them that the tests really matter. This takes time away from actual learning and also leads to students falling behind from students in higher class education. Students in higher class education have self funding for parents which boost their quality of education further compared to the lower class where such funding is not possible. It is very clear that if these two groups integrated there would be equal education. Getting to that point is a process that we as a nation are working towards.
Jonathan Kozol is an 81 year old from Boston, MA. He devoted most of his life to American Public Education to furthermore understand where the system is flawed. We know he is credible due to his extensive passion for this topic along with dozens of first hand experiences in schools.
The book was very informative in the sense of broadening my knowledge of what actually takes place in some school systems across the country. I know that what I was reading was reliable because of his passion for the topic along with with his connection he displays with the students he talks with. We can see that he genuinely cares for the best of every student and wants to make a change. With the number of schools he visited along with the consistency of the answers he received from students goes to show what the education is truly like in low class communities. The book had a positive impact on me in the sense that I now have a further understanding of how bad some children just like us have it in some parts of the country, which makes me more appreciative of what my education is.
In terms of the quality of the read itself it was very stale. Facts were consistently brought up and were repetitive. If you were to read any two chapters of the book you would take away the same thing from andy other two chapters. These facts really did a good job at backing up his purpose to make a change but, they were very repetitive. ...more "

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