Apartheid education, rarely mentioned in the press or openly confronted even among onceprogressive educators, is alive and well and rapidly increasing now in the united states. In 1964, the author, jonathan kozol, is a young man who works as a teacher. There is something deeply hypocritical in a society that holds an innercity child only eight years old accountable for her performance on a highstakes standardized exam but does not hold the high officials of our government accountable for robbing her of what they gave their own kids six or seven years before. Digital rights management drm the publisher has supplied this book in encrypted form, which means that you need to install free software in order to unlock and read it. It chronicles the social effects of underinvestment and neglect in public schools.
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