Article Title
A Simple and Prudent Proposal for Ending the Black Student Achievement Gap in Public Schools
Document Type
Article in Response to Controversy
Abstract
Jonathan Kozol wants public schools in America to be accountable to students. He advocates an end to the corporate model of education currently being practiced in school districts across the country and asks that we no longer allow schools to frame their students’ realities by transmitting the values and beliefs of the powerful elite (Kozol, 2005). After four decades of critically examining and witnessing about the structure and operations of our modern-day educational system that descended from the decision rendered in Brown v. Board of Education 10 years prior, he asks that our nation begin to pay up on its promise to provide an educational experience in which black students learn because of and not in spite of their attendance in school.
Genre/Form
articles
Recommended Citation
Owens, Judith
(2007)
"A Simple and Prudent Proposal for Ending the Black Student Achievement Gap in Public Schools,"
Journal of Educational Controversy: Vol. 2:
No.
1, Article 8.
Available at:
https://cedar.wwu.edu/jec/vol2/iss1/8
Subjects - Topical (LCSH)
Africans Americans--Education--United States; Pubic schools--United States; Segregation in education--United States; Educational change--United States
Subjects - Names (LCNAF)
Kozol, Jonathan
Geographic Coverage
United States
Language
English
Format
application/pdf
Type
Text