Review of Kozol's Article on Urban Public SchoolsElementsThe first element of Kozol's article is the reality of urban public schools and the isolation of their students. Jonathan Kozol illustrates a sad reality regarding the unequal attention given to urban and suburban schools. The article explains how Kozol specifically examines how they reflect institutional discrimination and failure to address the needs of minority children. The article points out that these are the inequalities of the title, seen in the way that schools in predominantly white neighborhoods are more likely to have sufficient funding, while schools in poor and minority neighborhoods have none. Kozol shows everyone involved in the education system that public schools are still separate and, therefore, still unequal. Suburban schools, made up of mostly white students, receive a far better education than urban schools. These urban schools are primarily staffed by Hispanics and African Americans. The second is the concern about segregation and the effect it has on society. Mr. Kozol provides his socially conscious and very informative view of the problems facing children and educators in this poverty-ravaged neighborhood. The forces that control public schools, Kozol points out, are the same forces that perpetuate inequality and suffering elsewhere; pedagogical styles and forms may change, but the basic parameters and goals remain the same: desensitization, selective information, predetermined "options", indoctrination. In theory, the decision should have meant the end of school segregation, but in reality its legacy proved much more confusing. While the principle of affirmative action under the trending code word “diversity” has brought unprecedented integration in higher education, America's military and corporate worlds, the kind of local school districts that Brown allegedly addressed are rarely become significantly integrated. In some respects, the black poor are more desperately concentrated than ever in failing urban schools, cut off not just from whites but from the thriving black middle class. Kozol describes in grim detail schools that function almost like factories or prisons. According to Kozol, US schools are rapidly becoming functionally segregated. Kozol lists the demographics of a large number of public schools in the United States, named after prominent civil rights activists, whose classrooms are 97 percent black and Hispanic, in some cases despite being located in predominantly black neighborhoods. white. It has been more than 50 years since Brown v. Board of Education. It is sad to read the state of affairs today.