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...nothing else, horrible school facilities have been replaced with nice new ones, and for some that is justification enough. "I bet a lot of kids in Kansas City are enjoying their childhood more now that they don't have to go to schools that smell," says author Jonathan Kozol, a longtime chronicler of educational injustice. "A good society would consider that money well spent...
...other students of the inner city are more pessimistic. "All the basic elements that spawn teenage crime are still in place, and in many cases the indicators are worse," says Jonathan Kozol, author of Amazing Grace, an examination of poverty in the South Bronx. "There's a dramatic increase of children in foster care, and that's a very high-risk group of kids. We're not creating new jobs, and we're not improving education to suit poor people for the jobs that exist...
...Jonathan Kozol is the author of Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation...
...think some of the best journalism today is being done in books, which does not speak well for the periodical industry in this country. Jonathon Kozol, Neil Sheehan, Susan Sheehan for that matter. Oh gosh, the trouble with starting a list like this is that you're always are so afraid you're going to leave someone...
...Jonathan Kozol describes in his bestseller Savage Inequalities the differential treatment given to many children. He cities expenditures of $5,500 per pupil in the city of New York while that figure jumps to $11,000 in upper middle-class suburbs such as Great Neck and Manhasset. Some of the most affluent areas received as much as $15,000 for each of its students. Similar patterns exist in other cities...