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Jonathan Kozol Still Separate Still Unequal Summary

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Within his essay, “Still Separate, Still Unequal”, Jonathan Kozol details the methodical resurgence of segregation amongst the inner-city school districts from civilization. Further, extending the definition passed its racial limitations by observing a diverse faction of both students and school officials. Therefore, engulfing him in a world filled with dilapidated facilities and scripted vocabularies that are designed to manage how teachers develop students into profitable citizens. Subsequently, navigating Kozol to conclude that if the nation’s inequalities are still gradually dictating the value of an individual’s education. Then that said person within the new interpretation of segregation has lost something more than education, they have lost their childhood.

What was once thought to be destroyed has remained dormant, what was once implemented was never truly absorbed. …show more content…

Hence, the process of desegregating educational institutions had been settled amongst society but never exceed the anticipation of equality. Additionally, an institution’s objectives can be illustrated across the landscape of education, producing effective workers. Those are the individuals whom struggle to establish the value of a nation, those are the ones whom go against their own interests. In kind, Kozol would expose, “Among the missions of the school, according to the printed statement, which was posted also in some other classrooms of the school, was “to develop productive citizens” who have the skills that will be needed “for successful global competition” (230). Ergo, amidst the walls of education lies the principles of industry. In turn, defining the responsibilities of the school’s standards, which is to now manufacture efficient individuals for placement within the terms and conditions of production. Consequently, a youthful heart cannot breathe within the interests of a nation, it

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