Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools - Softcover

Kozol, Jonathan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060974990 ISBN 13: 9780060974992

Publisher: Perennial, 1992

Synopsis

An account of the inequity in the American educational system explores the deplorable conditions--decaying buildings, overcrowding, understaffing, deteriorating neighborhoods--in which inner-city children are educated. Reprint. NYT. $50,000 ad/promo. Tour.

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Review

An impassioned book, laced with anger and indignation, about how our public education system scorns so many of our children. New York Times Book Review
I was unprepared for the horror and shame I felt Savage Inequalities is a savage indictment Everyone should read this important book. Robert Wilson, USA Today
Kozol has written a book that must be read by anyone interested in education. Elizabeth Duff, Philadelphia Inquirer
The forces of equity have now been joined by a powerful voice Kozol has written a searing expose of the extremes of wealth and poverty in America s school system and the blighting effect on poor children, especially those in cities. Emily Mitchell, Time
Easily 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. Entertainment Weekly
Moving Shocking Heartbreaking. Ruth Sidel, The Nation
It is neither ironic nor paradoxical to call Savage Inequalities a wonderful book for Kozol makes it clear that there are wonderful teachers and wonderful students in every American school, no matter what ugliness, violence, and horror surround the building. Chicago Tribune
The great virtue of Jonathan Kozol s new book about inner-city school sis that it overcomes that everybody knows problem by bringing an undulled capacity for shock and outrage to a tour of bad schools across the country. As soon as Kozol begins leading the way through a procession of overcrowded, underheated, textbookless, barely taught classrooms, the thought he surely intended to engender begins to take form: How can this be? Washington Post Book World
Poor children of all colors are increasingly looked upon as surplus baggage, mistakes that should never have happened. Indeed, an older view is returning that any attempts to educate the lower orders are doomed to fail. There can be more than one way to read the title of Jonathan Kozol s depressing and essential book. Andrew Hacker, New York Times Book Review
Mr. Kozol exposes lemons in American educational facilities I the same way Ralph Nader attacked Detroit automobile makers. Herbert Mitgang, New York Times
This book digs so deeply into the tragedy o the American system of public education that it wrenches the reader s psyche A must-read for every parent, every educator, and every relevant policymaker. --Alex Haley, author of Roots and The Autobiography of Malcolm X

A powerful appeal to save children by redistributing the wealth. It will cause angry, but perhaps fruitful, debate. Kirkus Reviews
Startling and compelling Crucial to any serious debate on the current state of American education.
Publishers Weekly
A superb, heart-wrenching portrait of the resolute injustice which decimates so many of America s urban schools. David J. Garrow, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Bearing the Cross"

"An impassioned book, laced with anger and indignation, about how our public education system scorns so many of our children." -New York Times Book Review

"I was unprepared for the horror and shame I felt... Savage Inequalities is a savage indictment...Everyone should read this important book." -Robert Wilson, USA Today

"Kozol has written a book that must be read by anyone interested in education." -Elizabeth Duff, Philadelphia Inquirer

"The forces of equity have now been joined by a powerful voice...Kozol has written a searing expose of the extremes of wealth and poverty in America's school system and the blighting effect on poor children, especially those in cities." -Emily Mitchell, Time

"Easily 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." -Entertainment Weekly

"Moving...Shocking...Heartbreaking." -Ruth Sidel, The Nation

"It is neither ironic nor paradoxical to call Savage Inequalities a wonderful book--for Kozol makes it clear that there are wonderful teachers and wonderful students in every American school, no matter what ugliness, violence, and horror surround the building."--Chicago Tribune

"The great virtue of Jonathan Kozol's new book about inner-city school sis that it overcomes that 'everybody knows' problem by bringing an undulled capacity for shock and outrage to a tour of bad schools across the country. As soon as Kozol begins leading the way through a procession of overcrowded, underheated, textbookless, barely taught classrooms, the thought he surely intended to engender begins to take form: How can this be?" -Washington Post Book World

"Poor children of all colors are increasingly looked upon as surplus baggage, mistakes that should never have happened. Indeed, an older view is returning that any attempts to educate the lower orders are doomed to fail. There can be more than one way to read the title of Jonathan Kozol's depressing--and essential--book." - Andrew Hacker, New York Times Book Review

"Mr. Kozol exposes lemons in American educational facilities I the same way Ralph Nader attacked Detroit automobile makers." -Herbert Mitgang, New York Times

"This book digs so deeply into the tragedy o the American system of public education that it wrenches the reader's psyche...A must-read for every parent, every educator, and every relevant policymaker." --Alex Haley, author of Roots and The Autobiography of Malcolm X

"A powerful appeal to save children by redistributing the wealth. It will cause angry, but perhaps fruitful, debate." -Kirkus Reviews

"Startling and compelling...Crucial to any serious debate on the current state of American education."
-Publishers Weekly

"A superb, heart-wrenching portrait of the resolute injustice which decimates so many of America's urban schools." -David J. Garrow, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Bearing the Cross

About the Author

Jonathan Kozol is the author of Death at an Early Age (for which he received the National Book Award), Savage Inequalities, Amazing Grace, and other award-winning books about young children and their public schools. He travels and lectures about educational inequality and racial injustice.

About this edition

• Publisher: Perennial
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0060974990
• ISBN 13: 9780060974992
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 261