Jonathan Kozol

An account of the inequity in the American educational system examines the deplorable conditions in which inner-city children are educated

Children in America's Schools

Savage Inequalities

children in America's schools

Savage inequalities

Martha F.

Alli Sweeney

Alianor Chapman

For 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.

Alexa Auerbach 

Ellen H

Zubaer

Savage Inequalities Children in America's Schools

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