Mark Anderson reviewed Savage inequalities by Jonathan Kozol
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4 stars
Kozol's writing smolders with fury, and this book imparts this fury onto the reader. If you read this and you are not moved to action, then it has not served its purpose. He relentlessly lays bare the reality of segregation and inequity in America's public education system, and this is a problem that has not lessened in scope nor intensity almost a decade after this was published. The fact is that even the most liberal minded people conveniently overlook reality when they move somewhere (or pull some strings to get their kids into somewhere) 'nice' in order to send their kids to a 'good' school.
The policies that we enact, the budgetary outlays, and the legal decisions that we make have immediate and powerful impact that cannot be understated. This book serves as a stark reminder of what happens to children when the complacency of the rich overrules reality.
