JONATHAN KOZOL

Harper's Magazine v. 311 1sep2005

Many Americans who live far from our major cities and who have no firsthand knowledge of the realities to be found in urban public schools seem to have the rather vague and general impression that the great extremes of racial isolation that were matters of grave national significance some thirty-five or forty years ago have gradually but steadily diminished in more recent years. The truth, unhappily, is that the trend, for well over a decade now, has been precisely the reverse. Schools that were already deeply segregated twenty-five or thirty years ago are no less segregated now, while thousands of other schools around the country that had been integrated either voluntarily or by the force of law have since been rapidly resegregating.

THE NO EXCUSES PHILOSOPHY: STRATEGIES FOR MOTIVATING STUDENT OF COLOR

March 22, 2010  Darrell Andrews

Years ago, my wife and I traveled with several volunteers to take a large group of African-American and Latino students on a trip to the Pocono Mountains in Pennsylvania. 100% of the 150 or so students we were spending the weekend with were from the inner city, and our focus was to spend that weekend training minority students on the importance of leadership as well as the need for developing their personal, interpersonal and communication skills.