Sentences with phrase «apartheid schools»

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

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

While some students attend schools in palatial settings offering small classes, expert teachers, and high - tech computers, others attend a growing number of apartheid schools serving low - income students of color in crumbling buildings, where a revolving door of substitutes and untrained teachers try to teach in overcrowded classrooms lacking enough desks, not to mention books and learning materials.

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.

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.

This includes dramatically inequitable school funding across states, districts, and schools and the intensified segregation of students on the basis of race and socio - economic status which have, together, created a growing number of under - resourced apartheid schools serving exclusively poor and minority students.

Those provisos aside, the top vote getter was The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty - First Century, by Thomas L. Friedman, followed by venerable education writer Jonathan Kozol's The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America.

Leading scholarly books devoted to school politics bore such titles as The Color of School Reform, «Brown» in Baltimore, The Education Gap, and The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America.

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.»

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

And to refer to these schools as «apartheid schools,» which implies that families are legally and physically required to attend segregated schools, is nothing more than alarmist rhetoric.

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.

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.

Fully 85 % of students in apartheid schools were low - income in 2010, as were 75 % of students in intensely segregated minority schools.

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).

In a Monday interview, Darling - Hammond disputed Students First's claim to the mantle of Brown v. Board; argued for «another War on Poverty» to transform «apartheid schools»; and said Obama has offered «a continuation» of the George W. Bush approach to «high - stakes testing without investing.»

Fully 15 % of black students, and 14 % of Latino students, attend «apartheid schools» across the nation, where whites make up 0 to 1 % of the enrollment.

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

The shame of the nation: The restoration of apartheid schooling in America.