Kozol

of the public education system in the United states. Kozol visits some of the most impoverished school districts in East St. Louis, Chicago, New York, Camden, and San Antonio. He identifies characteristic among all of these schools to include a high percentage of dropouts, a population of almost entirely non-white students, an infrastructure in disrepair, a startling lack of basic supplies, a shortage of teachers, and an excess of students. Kozol also visits schools in the vicinity that are in stark

greatly benefited education in Finland. Jonathan Kozol, who is an American writer, best known for his books on public education in the United States wrote about the condition of which students at a public high school in Los Angeles were going through. In his essay, “Fremont High”, Kozol informs us of how students success was being affected because of the lack of well-equipped classrooms, as well as necessary classes to help them succeed in college. Kozol starts off with a vivid description of the classrooms

in their elementary years. This now leads to the topic of this essay; Jonathan Kozol 's book and his research on students from the inner city. It appears that Jonathan Kozol took the organization of his book very seriously. In fact, I believe that his book was organized very well. When it comes to the type of organization used, deciding which was used is ultimately up to the reader. Personally, I believe that Kozol used topical organization. The reason being is that each chapter had a different

Jonathan Kozol's purpose in Savage Inequalities is to make people aware of the inequalities of the education system in different parts of the country. He accomplishes this purpose effectively through the use of appeals, such as ethos, pathos, and logos. Jonathan writes this book showing how bad different places around the world are financially and educationally. In East St. Louis there is the financial and community/environmental problems like not having garbage collection transporting hazardous

they function, and how it brings extreme troubles. Kozol effectively educates and exploits the overlooked troubles of being illiterate, by providing examples of their embarrassment, using repetition emphasizing on their limitations, and making assertions to explain how they survive. Kozol strongly believes being illiterate comes with embarrassment, and he backs up his point with actual examples of people who have gone through this experience. Kozol writes, “Donny wanted me to read a book to him. I

Inequalities” Kozol explains what he has learned from visiting three different district ten schools in New York. Kozol ultimately argues that students from low economic classes are being pushed aside and not given an equal education like the kids from high economic class schools. Looking at Kozol’s essay through a postcolonial scope the low class students can easily be seen as the subaltern and the high class students can be seen as the fortunate who benefit from the hegemonic power. Kozol describes

Jonathan Kozol “Still Separate Still Unequal” the author discusses how education for inner city school kids greatly differs from white school kids. “Schools that were already deeply segregated twenty-five or thirty years ago are no less segregated now” (Kozol 143). Although in 1954 the popular court case Brown vs Board of Education should have ended segregation in schools. The author shows how “the achievement gap between black and white children continues to widen or remain unchanged,” (Kozol 164) due

The names Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks, Langston Hughes, Jackie Robinson, Fannie Lou Hamer and Thurgood Marshall are all civil rights heroes, not to be forgotten. However, Jonathan Kozol reveals that the schools he has had experience with that are named after these civil rights champions are actually dishonoring the dead. Professor Gary Orfield indicates that schools that are comprised mostly of minority students, less than 1% white, are essentially “apartheid schools.” There is a reciprocal

Another important way of life is, not only freedom, but identity and self. Kozol emphasizes this concept throughout his essay by stating that they do not know the true world around them (261). In relaying that, “Not knowing the world that lies concealed behind those words is a more terrifying feeling…Even the hard, cold stars within the firmament above one’s head begin to mock the possibilities for self-location” (Kozol 261). The stigmas, fears, and poverty can all be prevented from education.

Jonathon Kozol writes a piece that is bringing up the issue of segregation in schools. Yes, the law says that every place in the United States is integrated; everyone should work together. The problem is that integration just is not happening. Schools for the most part are districted by where people live, so if most the Hispanic and Black neighborhoods are grouped together then of course the school will be segregated. Throughout Kozol’s piece, he makes the reader think about the situation America’s