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Article: The Blackboard Bungles; Three authors take us inside today's classroom. These flies on the wall reveal how we might fix our schools.(The Great Expectations School: A Rookie Year in the New Blackboard Jungle; Tested; A Class Apart: Prodigies, Pressure, and Passion Inside One of America's Best High Schools)(Book review)
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- Newsweek
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- September 3, 2007
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Byline: Peg Tyre
In 1965, after Jonathan Kozol was fired from his job in a Boston public school for teaching his African-American fourth graders a Langston Hughes poem that was not part of the curriculum, he went on to write a book that laid bare the inequities of a segregated education system. The injustices there, he wrote in the now classic "Death at an Early Age," "have compelled its Negro pupils to regard themselves with something less than the dignity and respect of human beings." His words--made more powerful by the fact that they came from his own experience--set off a wave of reform at the height of the civil-rights movement. Forty years later, as a ...
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Dictionary definition: blackboard jungle
The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable;
247 words
...blackboard jungle a school noted for indiscipline; the term comes from the title of a novel (1954) by Evan Hunter, later filmed.
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