Bedford Public Library

Savage inequalities, children in America's schools, Jonathan Kozol

eng

Includes bibliographical references (p. 238-254)

index present

non fiction

Savage inequalities

23651784

Jonathan Kozol

children in America's schools

Includes case studies of public schools in six citiesFor 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

Looking backward : 1964-1991 -- Life on the Mississippi : East St. Louis, Illinois -- Other people's children : North Lawndale and the South Side of Chicago -- The savage inequalities of public education in New York -- Children of the city invincible : Camden, New Jersey -- The equality of innocence : Washington, D.C. -- The dream deferred, again in San Antonio