Schooled in Persistence

Here's a profile of Jonathan Kozol in the Boston Globe. While I respect and
applaud his passion for helping disadvantaged children, I wrote last year
that his crusade against testing and NCLB makes him "a dangerous crackpot
who will cause this country's most vulnerable children immeasurable harm"
(my email explaining my views in greater detail is posted at:
http://edreform.blogspot.com/2007/03/my-critique-of-jonathan-kozol.html
<http://edreform.blogspot.com/2007/03/my-critique-of-jonathan-kozol.html> ).

The first sentence here is true; his comment in the 2nd sentence is absurd:
the Democrats are indeed genuflecting to an agenda, but it's Kozol's buddies
at the teachers unions, not the Republicans!
>
> He is better at identifying problems than solving them, which can be
> maddening. That said, his anger is bracing: "I'm sick of Democrats
> genuflecting to an agenda of Republicans since Ronald Reagan came in."

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Schooled in persistence
Kozol still national conscience on education
By Sam Allis, Globe Columnist | August 19, 2007

http://www.boston.com/news/education/k_12/articles/2007/08/19/schooled_in_pe
rsistence/

Jonathan Kozol tells this haunting little story. He and a fifth-grader in
the South Bronx nicknamed Pineapple are standing together on the roof of a
building gazing south toward Oz-like Manhattan. "What's it like over there?"
she asks him. "Over there where people like you grew up."