A review by bsmorris
Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools by Jonathan Kozol

5.0

If you want to understand what is really wrong with the American education system, and the real reasons our student achievement lags behind that of other industrialized nations, you must read this book. Yes, it was published in 1991, but I just read a recent interview with Kozol in which he said he was marching with the Save our Schools group because things haven't changed since 1991, despite all the so-called efforts of No Child Left Behind. Competition will not save our public schools, the market will not save our public schools - equity is what we really need and there's no quick-fix for that.