Divided: The Perils of Our Growing Inequality by David Cay Johnston

Author:David Cay Johnston [Johnston, David Cay]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Economic Policy, Social Services & Welfare, Public Policy, Social Policy, Political Science
ISBN: 9781595589446
Google: jZvfAgAAQBAJ
Publisher: New Press, The
Published: 2014-04-01T21:08:03+00:00

EDUCATIONAL QUALITY AND EQUALITY

Linda Darling-Hammond

Six decades after a unanimous Supreme Court found “separate, but equal” to be both unconstitutional and inherently unequal, huge disparities remain that hamper opportunity for poor and minority children.

Of all the civil rights for which the world has struggled and fought for 5,000 years, the right to learn is undoubtedly the most fundamental. . . . The freedom to learn . . . has been bought by bitter sacrifice. And whatever we may think of the curtailment of other civil rights, we should fight to the last ditch to keep open the right to learn, the right to have examined in our schools not only what we believe but what we do not believe; not only what our leaders say, but what the leaders of other groups and nations, and the leaders of other centuries have said. We must insist upon this to give our children the fairness of a start which will equip them with such an array of facts and such an attitude toward truth that they can have a real chance to judge what the world is, and what its greater minds have thought it might be.

—W.E.B. Du Bois, The Freedom to Learn

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