VOLUME 2, NUMBER 1, WINTER 2007
Jonathan Kozol's Nation
of Shame Forty Years Later
EDITORIAL
Jonathan Kozol’s Nation of Shame
Forty Years Later
Lorraine Kasprisin, editor
PROLOGUE
Editor:
On
September 29, 2005, Jonathan Kozol spoke at Western Washington
University on his latest book, The Shame of the Nation, the
Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America. We have used
the occasion of his talk as the impetus for this issue. For those
interested in viewing Mr. Kozol’s lecture, we have provided a link to
the video of his presentation.
We are dedicating this issue to Jonathan Kozol. Mr. Kozol has written a
special prologue to this issue for our readers.
Turning Our Ideals to Concrete Deeds
Jonathan Kozol
Byfield, Massachusetts
© Jonathan Kozol 2006
INTRODUCTORY ESSAY
Excerpts from the 2006 Report:
Racial Transformation and the Changing Nature of Segregation.
Gary Orfield, Distinguished
Professor of Education at UCLA and co-director of the Civil Rights
Project/El Proyecto de CRP.
Controversy Addressed in this Issue:
Jonathan Kozol reminds us that this country’s schools are more
segregated now than at any time since 1968. The moral imperative driving
the public schools is found in the language of the nation’s ideals as
well as in the rhetoric of its political slogans, but that imperative
has not been able to be realized. What is the nature of the gap between
the present realities of American schooling and a fulfilled vision of
equal educational opportunities for all? In this issue we invite authors
to examine various forces that impede or distract from the realization
of this vision, whether structural, moral, political, or pragmatic.
ARTICLES
IN RESPONSE TO THE CONTROVERSY
The Myths that Blind: the
Role of Beliefs in School Change
Kerri Ullucci
University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth
Return of the Deficit
Curt Dudley-Marling
Lynch School of Education, Boston College
Living Savage Inequalities: Room 405’s Fight for
Equity in Schooling
Brian Schultz
Northeastern Illinois University
School Desegregation, Linguistic Segregation and
Access to English for Latino Students
Beatriz Arias
Arizona State University
A Simple and
Prudent Proposal for Ending The Black Student Achievement Gap in Public
Schools
Judith Owens
University of Houston
SPECIAL SECTION ON WASHINGTON STATE POLITICS AND THE U.S. SUPREME COURT
DECISION
In the prologue to this issue of the journal,
Jonathan Kozol tells the reader that the U.S. Supreme Court decision
this term in PICS v Seattle School District may decide with finality the
prospects for integrated education in this nation. This special section
on Washington State Politics will provide the reader with a context for
understanding the issues that the court is weighing in the Seattle case
against a background of Washington state history and politics.
Douglas Judge first gives us an understanding of Seattle's past struggle
for desegregation within the history of segregated housing patterns and
restricted covenants along with a timeline of events. An understanding
of that struggle gives the reader an historical context for examining
today’s opposing legal arguments before the court that are supplied by
authors representing the Pacific Legal Foundation and the American Civil
Liberties Union.
The PLF article
questions the use of social science research in arguing constitutional
issues while the ACLU article questions the use of race-neutral
remedies as an effective means in achieving racial desegregation as a
goal in public education. Two school
administrators also provide the reader with a personal look from the
inside of the schools that are at the heart of the decision. And
finally, the journal provides unique perspectives from the views of
various community groups in Washington state whose children are at the
center of the controversy and whose lives will be impacted by the
Court’s decision.
INTRODUCTION
Housing, Race and Schooling in Seattle: Context for the Supreme Court
Decision
Douglas Judge
Western Washington University
OPPOSING LEGAL ARTICLES
Discrimination Veiled As Diversity:
The Use Of Social Science To Undermine The Law
Sonya D. Jones and Erin N. Ramsey
Pacific Legal Foundation
Can Race-Neutral Remedies Achieve Racial Desegregation?
An Introduction to the ACLU Amicus Brief to the U.S. Supreme Court
Roberto Sánchez
American Civil Liberties Union – Washington
BRIEF AMICUS CURIAE OF THE AMERICAN CIVIL
LIBERTIES UNION, THE ACLU OF KENTUCKY, AND
THE ACLU OF WASHINGTON IN SUPPORT OF RESPONDENTS
OPPOSING PERSONAL VIEWS FROM SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS
As Our Students Watched
David Engle
Principal, Squalicum High School, Bellingham, Washington
(former principal of Ballard High in Seattle)
Our Communities are in Crisis
Bruce Bivins
Assistant Principal, Franklin High School, Seattle, Washington
VIEWS FROM THE COMMUNITY
Educational Malpractice in Our Schools:
Shortchanging African American and Other Disenfranchised Students
Thelma Jackson
African American Think Tank
President of Foresight Consultants,
Olympia, Washington
The Community Outreach Demonstration Project
“It Takes a Village to Raise a Child”
Andrew Griffin
Assistant Superintendent
Washington State Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction
Multiethnic Think Tank Position Papers
FROM A STUDENT’S PERSPECTIVE
Keeping the Passion Alive: The Realities of Social Justice
Lynette Vogeley
Students and Teachers for Social Justice
Western Washington University
To read the decision by the United States Court of Appeals for the
Ninth Circuit
Docket No. 01-35450, go to:
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/data2/circs/9th/0135450op.pdf
U.S. Supreme Court Decision
Encyclopædia Britannica Content
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
See the
Rejoinders
Section to read reactions to the articles in this issue.
See the “Talking
With the Authors” video series for
videotaped interviews with some of the authors.
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