Savage inequalities : children in America's schools / Jonathan Kozol.

By:

Kozol, Jonathan, 1936-

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publication details: New York : Broadway Paperbacks, 2012.Description: 318 pages ; 21 cmISBN:

9780770435684 (pbk.)
0770435688 (pbk.)
9780770436667 (ebook)

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

370.9173

LOC classification:

LC 4091 K88s 2012

Summary: 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

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Item type	Current library	Home library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Libro	Biblioteca Juan Bosch	Biblioteca Juan Bosch	Humanidades	Humanidades (4to. Piso)	LC 4091 K88s 2012 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		00000120117

Originally published: New York : Crown Pub., 1991.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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

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