The Equality of Innocence: Washington, D.C.
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anderscj"When a task force set up by the governor offered its suggestions five years later, it argued that 100 percent equa... http://t.co/W5qLN5Ok
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anderscj"children in one set of schools are educated to be governors; children in the other set of schools are trained for ... http://t.co/r89HpCfY 17 days ago via Twittelator · powered by @socialditto
There is more than one historical primary source showing this intent by the inventors of our current system of compulsory education despite the current stated aim of No Child Left Behind. The fact we have unequal funding that doesn't adequately address the unequal needs for our poorest students means that the current rhetoric around equality and equal opportunity is simply newspeak.
"children in one set of schools are educated to be governors; children in the other set of schools are trained for being governed. The former are given the imaginative range to mobilize ideas for economic growth; the latter are provided with the discipline to do the narrow tasks the first group will prescribe." Kozol
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anderscj"'Children in New York may suffer from too little. Many of our children suffer from too much.' The loss of distinct... http://t.co/y8vJQJ6o 17 days ago via Twittelator · powered by @socialditto
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anderscj"when you tell them that the government can't find the money to provide them with a decent place to go to school, t... http://t.co/QP6HG4Qm 17 days ago via Twittelator · powered by @socialditto
"when you tell them that the government can't find the money to provide them with a decent place to go to school, they don't believe it and they know that it's a choice that has been made—a choice about how much they matter to society." Kozol
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anderscj"it is not so much the final numbers as the chaos that afflicts these systems in the interim that does the greatest... http://t.co/zSDP0H7x 16 days ago via Twittelator · powered by @socialditto
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anderscj"According to textbook rhetoric, Americans abhor the notion of a social order in which economic privilege and polit... http://t.co/s5JwAV0s 15 days ago via Twittelator · powered by @socialditto
"According to textbook rhetoric, Americans abhor the notion of a social order in which economic privilege and political power are determined by hereditary class...By this standard, education offered to poor children should be at least as good as that which is provided to the children of the upper-middle class." Kozol
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anderscj"If Americans had to discriminate directly against other people's children, I believe most citizens would find this... http://t.co/VUTUQxss 15 days ago via Twittelator · powered by @socialditto
"If Americans had to discriminate directly against other people's children, I believe most citizens would find this morally abhorrent. Denial, in an active sense, of other people's children is, however, rarely necessary in this nation. Inequality is mediated for us by a taxing system that most people do not fully understand" Kozol
The advertisements that appeared on this quote's Twitlonger page present an interesting contradiction:
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anderscj"The nation is hardly 'indivisible' where education is concerned. It is at least two nations, quite methodically di... http://t.co/UQdoOGze 15 days ago via Twittelator · powered by @socialditto
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anderscj"A sample of 110 Texas districts at the time showed that the ten wealthiest districts spent an average of three tim... http://t.co/6qQX3iA1 15 days ago via Twittelator · powered by @socialditto
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anderscj"A lot of wealthy folks in Texas think the schools are doing a sufficiently good job if the kids of poor folks lear... http://t.co/gBX6wHHA 15 days ago via Twittelator · powered by @socialditto
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