Our nation's oldest sin and deepest crime is the isolation of minority children - black children, in particular - in schools that are not only segregated but shamefully unequal.
From Jonathan Kozol
Racial segregation has come back to public education with a vengeance.
The 'niche' effect of charter schools guarantees a swift and vicious deepening of class and racial separation.
We know that segregation is evil. We know that the sickest children should not go to the worst hospitals. No, I refuse to pretend the problem is insufficient knowledge. We lack the theological will to do it.
No matter what happens in a child's home, no matter what other social and economic factors may impede a child, there's no question in my mind that a first-rate school can transform almost everything.
It is our nation which is blind, and needs our prayers.
All of my education at Harvard, then Oxford, then Paris was in literature - even my thesis was on Shakespeare.
Many of those who argue for vouchers say that they simply want to use competition to improve public education. I don't think it works that way, and I've been watching this for a longtime.
Even if you never do anything about this, you've benefited from an unjust system. You're already the winner in a game that was rigged to your advantage from the start.
Apartheid does not happen spontaneously, like bad weather conditions.
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