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Matthew Feathers Professor Kelly Alba ENGL 1312 07 February 2016 The Logical, Emotional, and Credible Evaluation of â€Å"Still Separate, Still Unequal.† Jonathan Kozol is an American writer from Boston, Massachusetts, and a graduate of Harvard University. He began his career as a teacher in the Boston school system and also became involved in the study of social psychology. Later he became an activist for low income and poverty destined children who are not provided the means for a proper education. The essay â€Å"Still Separate, Still Unequal†, by Jonathan Kozol, discusses the harsh truth of public school systems, and how they have become an isolation and segregation of inequality that students are subjected to; as a result, to receive an education. Throughout the essay, Kozol proves evidence of the inequality that African American and Hispanic children face in the current school systems across the country. Kozol supports his testimony by providing the reader with factual statistics and percentages, of how segregated the public school systems have become within many major cities. He exposes the details and statistic of how wealthier schools received better funding and opportunity than the low-income and poverty struck school systems throughout the major cities across the country. With the use of actual statistics, Kozol provides analytical support and demonstrates how racial segregation and inequality is very evident within many poverties and the afflicted inner-city schoolShow MoreRelatedLogical Reasoning189930 Words   |  760 Pagesupdated: April 26, 2016 Logical Reasoning Bradley H. Dowden Philosophy Department California State University Sacramento Sacramento, CA 95819 USA ii iii Preface Copyright  © 2011-14 by Bradley H. Dowden This book Logical Reasoning by Bradley H. Dowden is licensed under a Creative Commons AttributionNonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. 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