Blog #5
All good things come to an end. This is the last installment of my blog on The Shame of the Nation by Jonathan Kozol. I want first to thank my loyal readers and especially those who have provided comments along the way. In this last post, I want to congratulate Kozol for shedding light on a terrible societal problem. But I also want to criticize him for not thinking more critically and creatively about the problem that he has identified. I do not doubt after reading this book that there is tremendous segregation in the American education system and that the current system has done immense harm to minority students. I am also convinced that our education model of standardized testing followed by telling minority students and teachers in their schools that they simply are not trying hard enough is a discriminatory practice. Our unwillingness to fund these schools is shocking as is the approach to encourage teaching without creativity. Even though Kozol, at the end of the boo...