Inner City Schools By Jonathan Kozol

HFD 110
November 18th, 2015

60 schools, 30 districts, and 11 states that’s how many Jonathan Kozol visited after several years of watching and experiencing inner city children school districts. Back in the 1960s Jonathan Kozol was working with segregation schools in New York where Kozel was able to observe the students and the programs and was able to soon enough find out the problems that these schools were having. Kozel gives a lot of statistic through out to help the readers see how bad inner city schools have been over the years and still to this day the issues that they are having. One being while walking through the halls of one inner city school out of 2,000 children he did not see one white child. Usually these schools are made up of Blacks, Hispanics and even sometimes Asians barely ever you will see a white child.
This why schools are severely segregated and according to the book less than 11% of these children in inner city school districts are white. Kozol wanted to change these schools to where segregation did not have to be an issue anymore and, which he even wanted to get the faculty involved helping this important issue and help to improve the skills these children need but are not getting.
In his book he talks about Brown vs. Board of Education and

After this experiment it also brought down student crime rates between one another in and outside the classroom. Inner city schools now of days have dropped frequently unlike it was 30 years ago. Inner city schools were once like “a prison”, which most children said in The Shame of the Nation but now the schools districts have turned around to become something better. They still have a lot of work to do but as of now reading and writing skills have improved and so have