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...
If you grow up in the South Bronx today or in south-central Los Angeles or Pittsburgh or Philadelphia, you quickly come to understand that you have been set apart and that there's no will in this soci...
Young children give us glimpses of some things that are eternal.
Segregation, he concluded, is neither sought nor imposed by healthy … human beings.
I can say it, but it doesn’t seem convincing to most people. I can call it an ‘injustice,’ but that doesn’t always sink in either. You have to understand the nature of the culture in New York. Words t...
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...
Placing the burden on the individual to break down doors in finding better education for a child is attractive to conservatives because it reaffirms their faith in individual ambition and autonomy. Bu...
When I had asked Mrs. Flowers how she held up in the face of all the death and violence within her neighborhood, she had given me a simple answer: This family talks to God.
Children sometimes understand things that most grown-ups do not see.
The Ann Arbor superintendent ridicules what he describes as simple-minded solutions [that attempt] to make things equal. But, of course, the need is not to make things equal. He would be correct to ca...
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...
The slowness of change is always respectable and reasonable in the eyes of the ones who are only watching; it is a different matter for the ones who are in pain.
When low-income districts go to court to challenge the existing system of school funding, writes John Coons, the natural fear of the conservative is that the levelers are at work here sapping the foun...
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 socie...
Now and then, in private, affluent suburbanites concede that certain aspects of the game may be a trifle rigged to their advantage. Sure, it’s a bit unjust, they may concede, but that’s reality and th...
This, then, is the dread that seems to lie beneath the fear of equalizing. Equity is seen as dispossession. Local autonomy is seen as liberty--even if the poverty of those in nearby cities robs them o...
The usual reduction in class size, says the —from 30 to 24, for instance—isn’t enough to make a difference. If this were really true, and if the wanted to help the poorest children of Chicago, the lo...
But for the children of the poorest people we're stripping the curriculum, removing the arts and music, and drilling the children into useful labor. We're not valuing a child for the time in which she...
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...
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...
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