SOC 201 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Jonathan Kozol
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Again, the structuralist point of view is that it is not their culture but the lack of opportunities open to the poor that holds them back. For example, the important thing is not that poor children tend to be less prepared for the realities of school than middleclass children, but that the schools themselves are inadequate. More recently, educator jonathan kozol compared schools in poor neighborhoods to those in more affluent ones. The differences he found are reflected in the title of his book savage. Here he quotes a teacher who works in an inner-city high school: Very little education in this school would be considered academic in the suburbs. Maybe 10 to 15 percent of students are in truly academic programs. Of the 55 percent who graduate, 20 percent may go to four-year colleges . another 10 to 20 percent may get some kind of higher education.
