Savage Inequalities: Children in America’s Schools

Name: Savage Inequalities: Children in America’s Schools
Author: Jonathan Kozol
ISBN: 9780770436667

Jonathan Kozol

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Savage Inequalities: Children in America’s Schools

Jonathan Kozol

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Savage Inequalities won the New York Times Bestseller designation. 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 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.

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