At that time, I had recently finished a book called Amazing Grace, which many people tell me is a very painful book to read. Well, if it was painful to read, it was also painful to write. I had pains...
The willingness to relegate a person in my father's situation to a lower and less vigilant degree of medical attention was an accurate reflection of the values of a social system which, as I had learn...
Liberty, school conservatives have argued, is diminished when the local powers of school districts have been sacrificed to centralized control. The opposition to desegregation in the South, for instan...
Equity, after all, does not mean simply equal funding. Equal funding for unequal needs is not equality.
School boards think that, if they offer the same printed information to all parents, they have made choice equally accessible. That is not true, of course, because the printed information won’t be rea...
A four-year-old says, My mommy lives in heaven. Her eyelashes go down instead of up because she is … in heaven, but I miss her. She feels consoled that her mother is with God, who, she says, has pink...
The crowding of children into insufficient, often squalid spaces seems an inexplicable anomaly in the United States. Images of spaciousness and majesty, of endless plains and soaring mountains, fill o...
Many people, even those who view themselves as liberals on other issues, tend to grow indignant, even rather agitated, if invited to look closely at these inequalities. Life isn’t fair, one parent in...
I do not know very much about painting, but I know enough to know that the Art Teacher did not know much about it either and that, furthermore, she did not know or care anything at all about the way i...
I beg people not to accept the seasonal ritual of well-timed charity on Christmas Eve. It's blasphemy.
There is a parallel in this to arguments that we have heard in New York City in regard to health facilities that serve the rich and poor. There, too, we were told by doctors that the more exhaustive s...
Children long for this—a voice, a way of being heard—but many sense that there is no one in the world to hear their words, so they are drawn to ways of malice. If they cannot sing, they scream. They a...
The New Jersey constitution, says the court in its decision, requires that all students be provided with an opportunity to compete fairly for a place in our society.… Pole vaulters using bamboo poles...
Shorn of unattractive language about robots who will be producing taxes and not burglarizing homes, the general idea that schools in ghettoized communities must settle for a different set of goals tha...
There is a belief advanced today, and in some cases by conservative black authors, that poor children and particularly black children should not be allowed to hear too much about these matters. If the...
The report by the Community Service Society cites an official of the New York City Board of Education who remarks that there is no point in putting further money into some poor districts because, in h...
Instead of seeing these children for the blessings that they are, we are measuring them only by the standard of whether they will be future deficits or assets for our nation's competitive needs.
It is the comfortable people, by and large - those like the Reading Teacher - who make the decisions in our society. It is the people who those decisions are going to affect who are expected to stand...
We should invest in kids like these, we're told, because it will be more expensive not to. Why do our natural compassion and religious inclinations need to find a surrogate in dollar savings to be voi...
Competition at the local high school, said another Great Neck parent, was unhealthy. He described the toll it took on certain students. Children in New York may suffer from too little. Many of our chi...
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