Finn

Connections
In "Literacy with an Attitude" Finn discusses how their are low literacy levels in schools because different educational opportunities are available to different students depending on social class. He explains the two types of of education; empowering and domesticating. Empowering education "leads to powerful literacy, the kind of literacy that leads to positions of power and authority." Domesticating education "leads to functional literacy, literacy that makes a person productive and dependable, but not troublesome." Children recieve these different kinds of education based on their social class.
This is similar to Kozol's article "Still Separate, Still Unequal" Kozol states how schools are still unequal based on diversities. Schools cannot provide the resources necessary for students to succeed that attend schools with high percentages of blacks and Hispanics. These studednts are not provided with the same services as students that attend predominately white schools.