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A great deal has been written in recent years about the purported

A great deal has been written in recent years about the purported lack of motivation in the children of the Negro ghettos. Little in my experience supports this, yet the phrase has been repeated endlessly, and the blame in almost all cases is placed somewhere outside the classroom. – Jonathan Kozol

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But for the children of the poorest people were stripping the curriculum, removing the arts and music, and drilling the children into useful labor. Were not valuing a child for the time in which she actually is a child. – Jonathan Kozol

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By far the most important factor in the success or failure of any school, far more important than tests or standards or business-model methods of accountability, is simply attracting the best-educated, most exciting young people into urban schools and keeping them there. – Jonathan Kozol

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The primary victims of Katrina, those who were given the least help by the government, those rescued last or not at all, were overwhelmingly people of color largely hidden from the mainstream of society. – Jonathan Kozol

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