...have so many other factors against us. Jonathan Kozol’s article "Still Separate, Still Unequal: America's Educational Apartheid." is essentially about Kozol visiting various different schools and how the environments are and the podcast titled “Three Miles: This American Life” conducted by Chana Joffe-Walt show the unfortunate obstacles students of low- income families have to overcome for their education. I believe that although the education system should not take full responsibility for the low income students’ failure because there are other factors involved, it is certainly part of the problem. When students are not encouraged, they don’t do their best. They believe that there is no use in even trying. Furthermore, when students are limited in what they can learn, they may begin to believe that it does not matter what becomes of them; society doesn't care about them developing into the best they can be. Lastly, when students see all that they are not receiving, this makes them feel that they are not...
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...In his essay “From Still Separate, Still Unequal: America’s Educational Apartheid,” the author, Jonathan Kozol, based his essay on the interviews and observation that he had with many of the still racially segregated schools in America and his personal thought of the situation. In the first few sections of his essay, Kozol stressed the racial problem that he observed with most of the Western schools that he visited, such as the public schools in Chicago, Philadelphia, New York, and etc, that approximately more than ninety percent of the students being enrolled in those schools are African American, Hispanic, and students of another race; furthermore, other schools named after great people, such as MLK and Thurgood Marshall, are also racially segregated schools as well. In an attempt to have a better understanding of the problem with those racially segregated...
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