What Jonathan Kozol thinks about America
Writer and educator, born in 1936, whose Savage Inequalities (1991) documented the gap between rich and poor school districts in America and blamed school funding by local property tax.
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Their wordsThe crime I worry about is the massive crime of a society that viciously short-changes them year after year after year, who locks them into the most segregated public schools in the United States.
↗Jonathan Kozol: The Forgotten Children of the South Bronx (Democracy Now!, transcript)democracynow.org 3rd of 6 in this piece