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"A call for activism, The Shame of the Nation firmly grounds school-reform issues in the thorny context of race and concludes that the nation has failed to deliver the promise of Brown." --Washington Post
"A vividly written account from the frontlines of 'apartheid education.' It is impossible not to share Kozol's outrage." --Chicago Tribune "Segregation is back, and only a writer of Jonathan Kozol's wisdom and passion can assess its terrible price, one child at a time. It isn't easy, but before we can craft a solution, we have to feel the shame." --Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Nickel and Dimed "Shines a spotlight on poor, minority children, sabotaged and isolated by an educational system tilted to slight them . . . His outrage ought to infect us." --Los Angeles Times"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.
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