No Child Left Behinds fourth-grade gains arent learning gains, theyre testing gains. Thats why they dont last. The law is a distraction from things that really count. – Jonathan Kozol
Apartheid education, rarely mentioned in the press or openly confronted even among once-progressive educators, is alive and well and rapidly increasing now in the United States. – Jonathan Kozol
When I was teaching in the 1960s in Boston, there was a great deal of hope in the air. Martin Luther King Jr. was alive, Malcolm X was alive great, great leaders were emerging from the southern freedom movement. – Jonathan Kozol
The inequalities are greater now than in 92. Some states have equalized per-pupil spending but they set the equal level very low, so that wealthy districts simply raise extra money privately. – Jonathan Kozol