It is a commonplace by now to say that the urban school systems of America contain a higher percentage of Negro children each year.
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I emphasize teachers because they are largely left out of the debate. None of the bombastic reports that come from Washington and think tanks telling us what needs to be ‘fixed’ – I hate such a mechanistic word, as if our schools were automobile engines – ever asks the opinions of teachers.
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A great deal has been written in recent years about the purported lack of motivation in the children of the Negro ghettos. Little in my experience supports this, yet the phrase has been repeated endlessly, and the blame in almost all cases is placed somewhere outside the classroom.
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Jonathan Kozol (64)
Birth: | 5th September, 1936 |
Nationality: | American |
Profession: | Activist, Educator, Writer |
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