Chapter 1 Statistics
In 1991, this was the median household income of Mott Haven residents which represents the poorest area in the South Bronx (Kozul, 1995, pg.3).
What is $7600?
"Jungle Fever", "Black Sabbath", "True Power", and "Black Death" are all popular brand names for this drug.
What is heroin?
This is the park that Jonathan Kozol visits for interviews.
What is "Children's Park"?
Aleman states that Driscoll ISD based placement of students in the 3 year 1st grade program not on language proficiency, but on this.
What is a Hispanic/Mexican last name?
John Locke coined this term which refers to children being born "a blank slate".
What is tabula rasa?
Shortly before Kozul arrived in the South Bronx in July 1993, this number of people were shot dead within 30 minutes of each other (Kozul, 1995, pg. 5).
What is 3?
It is noted that the original name of the Bronx River was a Native American word that means this. (Kozul,1995, pg. 29)
What is "the place of peace"?
This is the reason so many students in the South Bronx are depressed.
What is addiction, poverty and homelessness?
The events of "Stolen Education" took place in this decade.
What are the 1950's?
Socrates is considered the teacher of Plato, who is considered the teacher of this Greek philosopher.
Who is Aristotle?
This vast number of homeless families were relocated to the South Bronx all with the same symptoms and the same problems (Kozul, 1995, pg. 11)
What is 3,000?
"They are selling hypodermic needles," Mrs. Washington later explains to me when I ask her what this term mean. (Kozul, 1995, pg. 37)
What is "works"?
This is the side of the Bronx that Jonathan Kozol was interviewing people.
What is South?
Enrique Aleman's mother was this age when she graduated high school.
What is 21?
This Latin phrase describes the role of the teacher acting in place of the parent.
Check-cashing places also handle Western Union in the South Bronx areas. In order to send $100, you have to pay this exorbitant fee (Kozul, 1995, pg. 21).
What is $25?
This critic of slave holding termed the practice as "the curse of Heaven in the states where it prevails," (Kozul, 1995, pg. 28)
Who is Gouvernear Morris?
Charlayne and the kids were scared of this.
What is "being shot or killed"?
In this year, the U.S. Supreme Court outlawed de facto school segregation forcing districts to close "Mexican" and "Black" schools.
What is 1954?
Socrates declared that if he was considered the wisest man alive, it was only because he was aware of this.
What is "his own ignorance"?
As heroin has made a comeback in the South Bronx, its potency has made it more lethal. As a result, it has been given this new street name (Kozul, 1995, pg. 24).
What is "DOA" - dead on arrival?
People make these by setting candles in a circle on the sidewalk where someone has been shot down (Kozul, 1995, pg. 34).
What is "the little altars in the streets"?
This is when South Bronx residents change out dirty needles for clean ones.
What is "the needle exchange"?
Mexican American children were placed into 3 years of first grade that were labeled this.
What is Beginners, Low First, and High First grade?
This Italian philosopher, known as "The Angelic Doctor", was canonized in 1323 by Pope John XXII.
Who is Thomas Aquinas?