{"product_id":"1522388","title":"Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools","description":"ix, 261 pp. \"Kozol believes that children from poor families are cheated out of a future by grossly underequipped, understaffed and underfunded schools in U.S. inner cities and less affluent suburbs. The schools he visited between 1988 and 1990 -- in burnt-out Camden, N.J., Washington, D.C., New York's South Bronx, Chicago's South Side, San Antonio, Tex., and East St. Louis, Mo., awash in toxic fumes -- were '95 to 99 percent nonwhite.' Kozol ( Death at an Early Age ) found that racial segregation has intensified since 1954. Even in the suburbs, he charges, the slotting of minority children into lower 'tracks' sets up a differential, two-tier system that diminishes poor children's horizons and aspirations. He lets the pupils and teachers speak for themselves, uncovering 'little islands of... energy and hope.' This important, eye-opening report is a ringing indictment of the shameful neglect that has fostered a ghetto school system in America.\" -- Publishers Weekly\r\n","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":12594799804486,"sku":"1522388","price":2.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/ym-demo.myshopify.com\/products\/1522388","provider":"Yesterday's Muse","version":"1.0","type":"link"}