Sentences with phrase «apartheid schooling in»

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

Jonathan Kozol, the award - winning author of The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America, is once again making quite the statement.

Nor are his books politically tepid: his latest, published in 2005, is called Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America.

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

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In The Shame of the Nation, Kozol reveals what school is like for the almost three - fourths of black and Latino students who attend «apartheid schools.»

We read of Indonesian school girls targeted and beheaded simply because they were Christians; of Nigerian Christian men forced to chose between conversion to Islam or death, and of their wives and children forced to chose between conversion or perpetual slavery; of Pakistani Christians being burned alive in their homes; of Coptic Christians in Egypt and Chaldean Catholics in Iraq being fire - bombed, maimed and killed» and when not killed, hounded into exile; of «religious apartheid» and executions in Iran; and of unspeakable atrocities against Christians in the Sudan, the «scene of suffering as abhorrent as anywhere on any continent.»

Originally written as a protest song against boarding schools, the song has gone on to be adopted by protesters in apartheid South Africa and campaigners against the West Bank barrier.

Earlier this week, the Conservatives warned of an «education apartheid» opening up in English schools, as more and more independent schools offered exams like the IB that were not widely available in the state sector.

DiNapoli and previous comptrollers have used the fund as a vehicle for social change in the past, divesting funds from South Africa during the apartheid era, and from tobacco companies, as well as freezing and then ending investments in guns manufacturers after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.

International initiatives included a faculty - student exchange with an elite Soviet math / science boarding school, a Young Science Scholars program for 11th Graders from around the globe, and assisting South African schools from Soweto to Capetown in their efforts to loosen the bonds of apartheid.

But the South African school system under apartheid was obviously unique; in some districts, the average class size reached 80 students.

Brown was one of seven educators to start one of South Africa's first non-racial schools in the 1980s, during the height of apartheid.

So, now that we are all in on the secret (that this is a self - perpetuating, apartheid system that keeps people in their god - ordained places), stop hatin» on charter schools.

While racial achievement gaps in education have remained stubbornly large, segregation has been increasing steadily, creating a growing number of apartheid schools that serve almost exclusively students of color from low - income families.

This educational model separation borders on apartheid, and is promoted both by established, self - interested districts and by the mainstream charter movement that has lost interest in attracting cultural and socioeconomic diversity into its schools.

His younger brother, Sasha, said that the struggles of the apartheid regime shaped their childhood and Mr. Polakow - Suransky's years in public high school in Ann Arbor.

Almost 90 % of students in apartheid school settings were low income in 2010, along with nearly 80 % of students in intensely segregated minority school settings.

Roughly three - quarters of the students attending intensely segregated settings in the state were considered low - income, and low - income students constituted more than 85 % of the enrollment in apartheid schools (where white students make up less than 1 % of the enrollment).

The CTU names the institutional racism at the center of school inequality and demands an end to educational apartheid in Chicago.

The state has two schools — Suitland High in Prince George's and Milford Mill — that are considered «apartheid» schools by the Civil Rights Project because they have a white population of less than 1 percent.

Eight of the 20 states reporting the highest numbers of students attending schools under apartheid conditions are located in the South or Border states, a significant retrenchment on civil rights progress.

You've warned that «a new form of redlining is emerging» in public education, and called out «a growing number of apartheid schools populated almost entirely by low - income African - American and Latino students in our increasingly race - and class - segregated system.»

«In the twenty - first century, standardized tests are a key feature of how wealthy educational investors and school reformers ensure that highly racially and economically segregated apartheid school districts remain lucrative.»

Half of the black students in the Chicago metro, and one third of black students in New York, attend apartheid schools.

The proposal lead more than one resident to wonder if John Jay was about to go apartheid with funding going to a separate school that catered to white students rather than being invested in John Jay's existing mold -, asbestos -, and minority - filled classrooms.

She is willing to frame literally anything, even schools created in response to Apartheid, as an example of «choice».

We examine the relationship between educational inputs — primarily pupilteacher ratios — and school outcomes in South Africa immediately before the end of apartheid government.

south african artist robin rhode reflects on his own childhood as a school student in johannesburg during the twilight of apartheid by turning the chrystie street branch of the lehmann maupin gallery in new york into a makeshift coloring book.

the artist reflects on his own childhood as a school student in johannesburg during the twilight of apartheid

Sure, the beginnings of Apartheid reform and desegregation were present, as slow as molasses as it were, and by now Nelson Mandela had gone from lawyer to militant to prisoner to free, but the conditions of schools in nonwhite townships were deplorable, the country volatile, and teachers would stop teaching as a form of protest.

Silence is not an option when your government does not speak for you or when a country such as Cameroon has no art schools or museums; or when in South Africa hierarchies of apartheid and exclusion privileged only a minority to officially partake in art; or when in Ethiopia, the communist military junta which overthrew Haile Selassie in 1974 also undid his work as patron of the arts, turned the art school into a socialist realist propaganda machine and jailed or killed all dissident voices.

I didn't learn about apartheid in grade school; in college, William Kentridge's animated films inspired some Wikipedia reading, but my understanding of South Africa remained smudgy.

Discovering that Bakenberg the town of his birth (located in apartheid - era KwaNdebele «homeland») was not even on the maps he was shown at school, Langa assembled his own map and inserted himself into it.

The events of the case in SAIA v. Carleton University took place in February 2009 when the Students Against Israeli Apartheid, a club at the school, tried to publicize Israeli Apartheid Week with about 100 posters around campus.