Phone calls aired on several radio stations voice a raw contempt for the capacities of urban children (money will not help these children) but predict the imminent demise of education in the richer di...
Placing a black person in control of an essentially apartheid system—whether that system is a city or its welfare apparatus or its public schools—seems to serve at least three functions. It offers sym...
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...
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...
Segregation, he concluded, is neither sought nor imposed by healthy … human beings.
When they pray, what do they say to God?
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...
Sometimes, he [Congressmen John Lewis] said, you have to ask for something that you know you may not get. And still you have to ask for it. It's still worth fighting for and, even if you don't believe...
What may be learned from the rebuttals made by the defendants in New Jersey and from the protests that were sparked by the decision of the court? Much of the resistance, it appears, derives from a con...
Still, the facts are always there. Every teacher, every parent, every priest who serves this kind of neighborhood knows what these inequalities imply. So the sweetness of the moment loses something of...
That is the great luxury of long-existing and accepted segregation in New York and almost every other major city of our nation nowadays. Nothing needs to be imposed on anyone. The evil is already set...
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 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...
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 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...
The rich...should beg the poor to forgive us for the bread we bring them. Healthy people sometimes feel they need to beg forgiveness too, although there is no reason why. Maybe we simply ask forgivene...
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.
The struggle being waged today, where there is any struggle being waged at all, is closer to the one that was addressed in 1896 in Plessy v. Ferguson, in which the court accepted segregated institutio...
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...
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...
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