February 10, 2003
Savage Inequalities
Children in America's Schools
Savage Inequalities is the eye-opening result of Jonathan Kozol's visits to a number of urban public schools across America. He effectively explores the long-term effect of school systems that have experienced the hardships of inadequate funding and inadequate staffing in impoverished neighborhoods. The lives of children are sensitively portrayed, and are described by Kozol as "defenseless emblems of hope and promise." Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools, published in 1991, won the New England Book Award, and was a National Book Critics Circle award finalist in 1992.
