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Jonathan Kozol has spent four decades writing about the terrible and wonderful things that happen in low-income, minority schools. He was fired from his first public school teaching job in Boston for using a book by black poet Langston Hughes. Since then he has written 11 books, winning several awards.

Kozol spent five years visiting 60 schools in 11 states for his latest book "The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America." Also, Kozol in a recent interview told "NEA Today" that he refused to give another recipe for running "good" segregated schools.

Excerpts

An urban student asks Kozol how the 'other side' lives.

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This suburban Milwaukee superintendent tells why integration works in his district.

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NEA President Reg Weaver Talks with Jonathan Kozol

Apartheid Schools

Kozol explains that "Shame of the Nation" is not another 'recipe book' for fixing segregated schools or "polishing the apple of apartheid."

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High-Stakes Testing

Find out why Weaver and Kozol believe high-stakes testing will have long-term negative effects on our economy and society.

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Scripted Reading

Kozol, furious over scripted reading programs says the average Black and Latino student by 12th grade is doing reading and mathmatics at the level of a white seventh-grader.

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What Do You Think?

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Would black and Hispanic students find greater academic success if more had teachers from similar ethnic backgrounds?

Only 14 percent of educators are minorities while the non-white children make up 40 percent of our school-age population. Overall, there are about 3 million teachers available to educate America's nearly 50 million school children.

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