English 1100
Professor Young
10/29/2015
Still Separate, Still Unequal
America's Educational Apartheid
by Jonathan Kozol
"Sad truth"
"Perhaps most damaging to any serious effort to address racial segregation openly is the refusal of most of the major arbiters of culture in our northern cities to confront or even clearly name an obvious reality they would have castigated with a passionate determination in another section of the nation fifty years before-and which, moreover, they still castigated today in retrospective writings that assign it to comfortably distant and allegedly concluded era of the past."
"Equality itself-equality alone-is now, it seems, the article of faith to which most of the principals of inner-city public schools subscribe."
"As racial isolation depends and the inequalities of education finance remain unabated and take on a new and more innovative forms, the principals of many inner-city schools are making choices that few principals in public schools that serve white children in the mainstream of the nation ever need to contemplate."
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