Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools

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Synopsis
For two years, beginning in 1988, Jonathan Kozol visited schools in neighborhoods across the country, from Illinois to Washington D.C., and from New York to San Antonio. He spoke with teachers, principals, superintendents, and, most important, children. What he found was devastating. Not only were schools for rich and poor blatantly unequal, the gulf between the two extremes was widening—and it has widened since. The urban schools he visited were overcrowded and understaffed, and lacked the basic elements of learning—including books and, all too often, classrooms for the students.

In Savage Inequalities, Kozol delivers a searing examination of the extremes of wealth and poverty and calls into question the reality of equal opportunity in our nation’s schools.

Copyright:
1991

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
274 Pages
ISBN-13:
9780770436667
Related ISBNs:
9780770435684
Publisher:
Crown Publishing Group
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
Jonathan Kozol
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Education, Philosophy, Sociology
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Bookshare Staff
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This is a copyrighted book.

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