Summary Of The Anatomy Of Inequality By Linda Darling Hammond

Education is one of the most important tools in society, that serve as a base of power to open our minds, in a relationship with the truth. According to an article called The Anatomy of Inequality, by Linda Darling Hammond, refers to an objection to the public education in the United States, and how children should be educating. Hammond points out how there was the unfairness between African American, with low social status, and also with immigrants students. Although many people may think that these problems have been results through the pass of the years, it is clear that many issues still open, and waiting for justice. One Hammond major points are based that the country was established on equality, and freedom for everyone. It is familiar to many of us, how this amendment was violated, in many areas, especially

These differences are between white people and African Americans people. The majority of these facilities are present communities of white people, or with people with high social status. Meanwhile, African American communities stay in the back with fewer resources in education, and with a not stronger community. What really shows how the segregation separate “but equal” still alive. The government gives more opportunities for schools of certain communities according to Hammond because of something called “Local property taxes” (Hammond, p. 2). Which means that wealthy communities can invest more in their school than poor do because they produce more money and pay more taxes. Which lead to a problem, how poor community can be raised and have the same opportunities that white people have access. African have always been in a low status of education and social status because they have been always discriminating, without a good help in education. One proof of inequality can be clearly seen in an investigation in 1857 “Investigating committee that the New York Board of Education spent $16 per White child and only one cent per Black child for school