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The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America

The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America

Over the last 15 years, the state of inner-city public schools has been in a steep and continuing decline. Since the federal courts began dismantling the landmark ruling in Brown v. Board of Education, segregation of black children has reverted to its highest level since 1968. In many inner-city schools, a stick-and-carrot method of behavioral control traditionally used in prisons is now used with students. Meanwhile, as high-stakes testing takes on pathological and punitive dimensions, liberal education has been increasingly replaced by culturally barren and robotic methods of instruction that would be rejected out of hand by schools that serve the mainstream of society.

Filled with the passionate voices of children, principals, and teachers, and some of the most revered leaders in the black community, The Shame of the Nation pays tribute to those undefeated educators who persist against the odds, but directly challenges the chilling practices now being forced upon our urban systems by the Bush administration. In their place, Kozol offers a humane, dramatic challenge to our nation to fulfill at last the promise made some 50 years ago to all our youngest citizens. more

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4/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Apr-12-2009; Interesting read!; I was required to read this book for a graduate class and was actually pleasantly surprised. I'm a teacher and there's a lot of things in this book I never thought about! Great read!; read full review | report as inappropriate

3/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Apr-06-2009; This is a Scary Book; Mr. Kozol, himself a white New York City liberal, to his credit has carefully described a widespread problem of the restoration of racism, Northern style. To his own shame however, he has not affixed the blame for this restoration. He...; read full review | report as inappropriate

3/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Jan-26-2009; Move to Pennsylvania, then.; [...] indicates that for 2006, the Pittsburgh and Philadelphia School Districts spent [...] per student. This is vs. an average expenditure of [...] per student for the state as a whole. In case anyone hasn't figured it out, the title...; read full review | report as inappropriate

4/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Jan-19-2009; The Shame of the Nation; If you are a teacher who is interested in how urban schools are being managed, you will definitely like this book. Kozol has done many observations in different school, he shares his thoughts and experiences with the reader.; read full review | report as inappropriate

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4/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Apr-12-2009; Interesting read!; I was required to read this book for a graduate class and was actually pleasantly surprised. I'm a teacher and there's a lot of things in this book I never thought about! Great read!; read full review | report as inappropriate

3/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Apr-06-2009; This is a Scary Book; Mr. Kozol, himself a white New York City liberal, to his credit has carefully described a widespread problem of the restoration of racism, Northern style. To his own shame however, he has not affixed the blame for this restoration. He...; read full review | report as inappropriate

2/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Nov-14-2008; Well, he's good at something...; Kozol does something extraordinarily well in this book, and that is to point out all that is going wrong with our schools. There's a point, though, when we must stop agonizing over what is wrong with the system, and make some real...; read full review | report as inappropriate

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