experience and from society itself. The benefits of an education miss such a generation, leaving the members uncertain of their social identity, unemployable, and increasingly angry.
Jonathan Kozol in Savage Inequalities takes the position that the structure of education in American society is based on a two-tiered system which leaves the poorer children behind in terms of the education they can receive. This is a new form of segregation in Kozol's view, a segregation based on race that continues long after the Supreme Court in Brown v. Board of Education ruled that such inequalities in the public schools had to be eliminated. Kozol travels to real schools to observe, and he finds that little has changed:
Most of the urban schools I visited were 95 to 99 percent nonwhite. In no school that I saw anywhere in the United States were nonwhite children in large numbers truly intermingled with white children (Kozol 3).
Kozol also finds that most people simply believe that the segregation of the past is just that--something of the past, something that has been eliminat
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