Federation's Alliance for Jewish Education
14th Annual Anita Haftaly Family Circle Conference

KEYS TO RESOLVINO.

Another person asked what
steps are necessary to fix Detroit
Public Schools.
"Detroit Public Schools are
one of the three most segregat-
ed school systems in the coun-
try," he said. "Michigan is the
second most segregated state.
The only approach that has a
chance of working is enabling
inner-city children to sit in the
same buildings and classrooms
as upper-middle class children
in the suburbs.
"This needs to be made possi-
ble by a strategically shrewd plan
that guarantees kids don't have
to go through seven neighbor-
hoods on a bus to get to school.
Rather, we need a system that
uses point-to-point transporta-
tion. The schools will have to hire
role models to ease the cultural
transition, and the integration
must begin in kindergarten to
cross racial borders at an early
age before these children self-seg-
regate and fall behind."
Kozol, a Boston native, is the
author of several award-win-
ning books on public education,
including Death at an Early
Age, which won a National Book
Award in 1968. Among his other
books are Amazing Grace (1995),
a bestseller about his visits
to schools in New York City's
South Bronx, and The Shame of
the Nation, an expose of condi-
tions he found while visiting
nearly 60 public schools in 11
states. Another bestseller, Savage
Inequalities (1991), explores the
extremes of wealth and poverty
in the nation's public school sys-
tem.
In Kozol's most recent book,
Letters to a Young Teacher (2007),
he relates many experiences
from the years he spent in public
schools. His thoughts are revealed
through a series of letters to a
first-grade teacher at an inner-
city Boston school.
Paula Wood, dean of WSU's
College of Education, notes that it
is virtually impossible to become
an accredited K-12 teacher in the
public education system today
without having come in contact
with Kozol's work at some point
during the training process.
For more information about
FOCIS, visit wwwfocis.wayne.edu. ❑

featuring

Planning Committee

Rabbi Joseph Krakoff
Elise Levinson
Andee Liberman
Ann Pat onik
Mary Rosen
Rabbi Steven Rubenstein
Dina Rudashevski
Bessie Shemtov
Any Seidman
Chaya Leah
Arny Wise

Elissa Bern
Susie Citrin
Arlene Cohen
Julie Elsrnan
Linda Friedman
Robyn Glickaa.-:
Shirlee. Wyman. Harris
Carol iiaczander
Nancy Haub-oar:
Br. Daniel Klein
Linda Hole

ROSS TN. GREENE, Ph.D.

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