At present, black children are more segregated in their public schools than at any time since 1968. In the inner-city schools I… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
No Child Left Behind widens the gap between the races more than any piece of educational legislation I've seen in 40 years.… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
President Obama's first term in office has been better for intentions than for actual changes in planning and policy. I do believe,… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
Public school was never in business to produce Thoreau. It is in business to produce a man like Richard Nixon and, even… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
We are now operating a school system in America that's more segregated than at any time since the death of Martin Luther… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
The fact that a crime might have been committed with impunity in the past may make it seem more familiar and less… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
Hypersegregated inner-city schools - in which one finds no more than five or ten white children, at the very most, within a… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
In many of the high schools in the South Bronx, more children will end up in prison than will go to college. — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
Political struggle is the most important thing any of us can do as a citizen in a democracy; and that means the old joining… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
The future teachers I try to recruit are those show have refused to let themselves be neutered in this way, either in their private… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
Separate and unequal didn't work 100 years ago. It will not work today. — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
“Unless we have the wealth to pay for private education, we are compelled by law to go to public school—and to the public school… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
At present, black children are more segregated in their public schools than at any time since 1968. In the inner-city schools I visit, minority… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
“I want to correct something I told you once,' she says. 'You asked me once if I thought white people wish that Puerto Rican… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
Let's concede that we have decided to let our children grow up in two separate nations, and lead two separate kinds of lives. If,… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
Our political establishment refuses to use the word 'segregated.' They call the schools diverse, which means half black, half Hispanic, and maybe two white… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
'Savage Inequalities' was about school finance, and 'Amazing Grace' primarily dealt with medical and social injustices in New York. But with 'Ordinary Resurrections,' I… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
If you could lead through testing, the U.S. would lead the world in all education categories. When are people going to understand you don't… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
