Still Separate Still Unequal Analysis
Race in and Around American Schools English essay
I agree with both of the authors that there is a problem in the United Sates education system when it comes to race and segregation but I do not think that the issue is as wide spread as the authors make it out to be but in other areas the situation is only getting worse and this lack of diversity in schools can only lead to further problems with race relations. In comparing the essay Still Separate, still unequal: American’s Educational Apartheid by Johnathan Kozol and the essay Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria by Beverly Tatum you see that both essays have many similarities and differences in the points that they are trying to convey as well as the conclusions that each of the essays come to. Each essay presents different problems in the education system in the United States with racial equity, such as the point being raised by Kozol that many schools in major cities across the country are all but segregated; but they also show that there is some potential in fixing the education system.
Both authors talk about race and to some extent segregation in the education system in the United States. The focus of Tatum’s essay is within schools looking at the student population and how some clicks are formed around race. Kozol’s main …show more content…
Saint Ignatius is a boys only catholic school located in an upper class neighborhood of Cleveland called Ohio city. Tuition is over 15 thousand dollars a year and the school population of 1,400 students is 87% white (Saint Ignatius High School). This school is one of the best and in 2009 was give the Blue Ribbon award which is an award to praise schools which have achieved high levels of performance in closing the achievement gap. Saint Ignatius is a highly acclaimed and praised mostly white high school in a mostly black and Hispanic
I agree with both of the authors that there is a problem in the United Sates education system when it comes to race and segregation but I do not think that the issue is as wide spread as the authors make it out to be but in other areas the situation is only getting worse and this lack of diversity in schools can only lead to further problems with race relations. In comparing the essay Still Separate, still unequal: American’s Educational Apartheid by Johnathan Kozol and the essay Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria by Beverly Tatum you see that both essays have many similarities and differences in the points that they are trying to convey as well as the conclusions that each of the essays come to. Each essay presents different problems in the education system in the United States with racial equity, such as the point being raised by Kozol that many schools in major cities across the country are all but segregated; but they also show that there is some potential in fixing the education system.
Both authors talk about race and to some extent segregation in the education system in the United States. The focus of Tatum’s essay is within schools looking at the student population and how some clicks are formed around race. Kozol’s main …show more content…
Saint Ignatius is a boys only catholic school located in an upper class neighborhood of Cleveland called Ohio city. Tuition is over 15 thousand dollars a year and the school population of 1,400 students is 87% white (Saint Ignatius High School). This school is one of the best and in 2009 was give the Blue Ribbon award which is an award to praise schools which have achieved high levels of performance in closing the achievement gap. Saint Ignatius is a highly acclaimed and praised mostly white high school in a mostly black and Hispanic