Apartheid+&amp;++Education&nbsp;Today

=__Apartheid & Education Today__=



The system of South African Apartheid as we know it today has changed dramatically. However, there is an emergence of a new system of apartheid today that has manifested into our classrooms, into our schools, and into the U.S. system of education. Today, schools across the Unites States are more segregated then they were during the civil rights movement. Especially in respects to urban schools vs. suburban schools, financial funds, race, school resources, standardized testing, and other factions. These factions, as they are referred to have been identified by many scholars and researchers alike.

The Apartheid that we watched rise and fall in South Africa has creped its way into America’s schools and into America’s classrooms. The inequalities that are dramatically unfolding within our communities and those around us are spiraling out of control, because we as society have either ignored them, or simply have refused to recognize and identify them.

Renowned scholar and writer Jonathan Kozol published a dynamic book entitled “Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America.” As mirrored by its publisher, over the past several years, Jonathan Kozol has visited nearly 60 public schools. Virtually everywhere, he finds that conditions have grown worse for inner-city children in the 15 years since federal courts began dismantling the landmark ruling in Brown v. Board of Education. First, a state of nearly absolute apartheid now prevails in thousands of our schools. The segregation of black children has reverted to a level that the nation has not seen since 1968. Few of the students in these schools know white children any longer. Second, a protomilitary form of discipline has now emerged, modeled on stick-and-carrot methods of behavioral control traditionally used in prisons but targeted exclusively at black and Hispanic children. And third, as high-stakes testing takes on pathological and punitive dimensions, liberal education in our inner-city schools has been increasingly replaced by culturally barren and robotic methods of instruction that would be rejected out of hand by schools that serve the mainstream of society.

Kozol argues within the text that US schools are now more segregated than when the Supreme Court made its landmark Brown v. Board of Education desegregation ruling in 1954. He also recognizes specific factions that have contributed to this dilemma by tracing the roots of the problems, faults, and efficiency models such as the No Child Left Behind Act. Kozol further recognizes that the U.S. government should establish a constitutional amendment making education a fundamental right.

=**__Jonathan Kozol Speaks__**=

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Jonathan Kozol speaks at an Oregon Church about his newly released book "Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America."

=__This is America: Guest Jonathan Kozol__=

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Kozol speaks on a talk show where he discusses his new book "Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America." Teacher, author and activist Kozol notes that his new book is about the tragic return of segregation in American schools.