"The refusal of most of the major arbiters of culture in our northern cities to confront or even clearly name an obvious reality"
"Equality itself—equality alone—is now, it seems, the article of faith to which most of the principals of inner-city public schools subscribe."
"Higher standards, higher expectations, are repeatedly demanded of these urban principals, and of the teachers and students in their schools, but far lower standards—certainly in ethical respects—appear to be expected of the dominant society that isolates these children in unequal institutions."
