Savage Inequalities
“Kozol has written a book that must be read by anyone interested in education.”
Time
Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award
A look at the systematic denial of a good education to lower-class children in the United States and the built-in inequality of the public school system
Jonathan Kozol traveled from the most blighted neighborhoods of Chicago to the urban wreckage of Camden, New Jersey; from the ghetto suburbs of Detroit to inner-city San Antonio; East St. Louis, and Washington, DC.
Everywhere, he discovered separate systems of public schools, with the children of America’s poor condemned to schools that are underfunded, understaffed, physically crumbling, and imbued with despair.
The richest Americans congratulate themselves on the large sums they invest in their children’s schools, while the poor actually devote proportionally larger shares of their incomes to education.
Savage Inequalities carries a sense of urgency and immediacy and will certainly revive debate on the most vital, fundamental, and controversial issue facing America today.
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