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During the decades after Brown v. Board of Education there was terrific progress. Tens of thousands of public schools were integrated racially. During that time the gap between black and white achievement narrowed.


Jonathan Kozol


#after #between #black #black and white #board

Hypersegregated inner-city schools - in which one finds no more than five or ten white children, at the very most, within a student population of as many as 3,000 - are the norm, not the exception, in most northern urban areas today.


Jonathan Kozol


#children #exception #finds #five #inner-city

I once made a check of all books in my fourth-grade classroom. Of the slightly more than six hundred books, almost one quarter had been published prior to the bombing of Hiroshima; 60 percent were either ten years old or older.


Jonathan Kozol


#been #bombing #books #check #classroom

I'd love to go back and teach primary school. I used to teach fourth grade and fifth grade. I'd love to spend several years teaching kindergarten or maybe third grade.


Jonathan Kozol


#fifth #fourth #go #grade #i

President Obama's first term in office has been better for intentions than for actual changes in planning and policy. I do believe, and he has several things to this effect, that he would like to provide universal preschool or at least far more preschool for our children.


Jonathan Kozol


#been #believe #better #changes #children

The first ten, twelve or fifteen years of life are excavated of inherent moral worth in order to accommodate a regimen of basic training for the adult years that many of the poorest children may not even live to know.


Jonathan Kozol


#adult #basic #children #even #fifteen

Well, teachers have been profoundly demoralized in recent years and are often treated with contempt by politicians. There's a great deal of reckless rhetoric in Washington about the mediocrity of the teaching profession - and I don't find that to be true at all.


Jonathan Kozol


#be true #been #contempt #deal #demoralized

For the first couple of years I played really bad tennis. It was so bad that they booed me off the court.


Richard Krajicek


#booed #couple #court #first #i

Roddick can challenge him as well if he serves big consistently for the entire match. If he does that, then he is tough to break even for a guy like Federer.


Richard Krajicek


#break #challenge #consistently #does #entire

Safin, in his way, is very talented. It is a joy to watch them play; it is tennis of a very high quality.


Richard Krajicek


#high quality #his #his way #joy #play






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