Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools

Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools
- Kozol believes that children from poor families are cheated out of a future by grossly underequipped, understaffed and underfunded schools in U.S. inner cities and less affluent suburbs.
NEW YORK TIMESÂ BESTSELLER â€¢ â€œAn impassioned book, laced with anger and indignation, about how our public education system scorns so many of our children.â€â€”The New York Times Book Review
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In 1988, Jonathan Kozol set off to spend time with children in the American public education system. For two years, he 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 wideningâ€”and it has widened since. The urban schools he visited were overcrowded and understaffed, and lacked the basic elements of learningâ€”including books and, all too often, classrooms for the students.
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InÂ 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 nationâ€™s schools.
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Praise forÂ Savage Inequalities
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â€œI was unprepared for the horror and shame I felt. . . .Â Savage InequalitiesÂ is a savage indictment. . . . Everyone should read this important book.â€â€”Robert Wilson,Â USA Today
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â€œKozol has written a book that must be read by anyone interested in education.â€â€”Elizabeth Duff,Â Philadelphia Inquirer
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â€œThe forces of equity have now been joined by a powerful voice. . . . Kozol has written a searing exposÃ© of the extremes of wealth and poverty in Americaâ€™s school system and the blighting effect on poor children, especially those in cities.â€â€”Emily Mitchell,Â Time
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â€œEasily the most passionate, and certain to be the most passionately debated, book about American education in several years . . . A classic American muckraker with an eloquent prose style, Kozol offers . . . an old-fashioned brand of moral outrage that will affect every reader whose heart has not yet turned to stone.â€â€”Entertainment Weekly
Country USA
Brand Broadway Books
Manufacturer Crown
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 651451
Color Teal/Turquoise green
ReleaseDate 2012-07-24
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780770435684

Country	USA
Brand	Broadway Books
Manufacturer	Crown
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	651451
Color	Teal/Turquoise green
ReleaseDate	2012-07-24
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780770435684

Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools

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