Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools
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Jonathan Kozol, author of Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools, is the well-known and respected author of a number of other books on the injustices and shortcomings of the social-educational system of the United States, including Death at an Early Age, his first book and a National Book Award winner. His work is based on his career as both a teacher and a researcher into that system, and, aside from his thorough research and unique insights, the great strength of this and other books is his passionate sense of the failure of the system to adequately and meaningfully educate the poorest of the nation's children. Instead of taking a scholastic or theoretical approach to the subject, Kozol focuses on the children themselves:It occurred to me that we had not been listening much to children in these recent years of "summit conferences" on education, of severe reports and ominous prescriptions. . . . I decided . . . to listen very carefully to children and . . . to let their voices and their judgments and their longings find a place within this book. . . . (Kozol 5-6). It is the thesis of this study that Kozol's book is effective and significant primarily because he succeeds in his intention to let the children themselves serve as the heart and soul of his examination of the "savage inequalities" of the American educational system, wherever possible. In addition, Kozol succeeds because he recognizes that school is not primarily a competitive, grade-oriented enterpr
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se children. The future is the children, which Kozol recognizes, and he rightfully and movingly argues that it is simply wrong and unnecessary that the nation is failing its children: "Surely there is enough for everyone within this country. It is a tragedy that these good things are not more widely shared. All our children ought to be allowed a stake in the enormous richness of America" (233).
Andrew Hacker, author of Two Nations: Black and White, Separate, Hostile, Unequal, is a professor of political science at Queens College in New York City and the author of seven books on American society, politics, and statistical research. He also writes for many respected periodicals.
The thesis of this study is that Hacker's Two Nations is effective because the author says precisely what he is going to do, and then does it and nothing more. He says he is going to show that racial inequality and separation continue to exist because white America does not want to change the situation, and this is precisely what he shows. His philosophy of social science, his field, forms the core of his approach to the material in this book: "Much of my career has been spent as a social scientist, which carries a commitment to revealing how the world re
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Approximate Pages = 9 (250 words per page)
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