Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools Characters & Character Analysis

Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools Important People

Jonathan Kozol

Jonathan Kozol is an author and leftist social advocate who begins his career as a teacher in disadvantaged schools during the '60s. In the late '80s, after devoting himself to many other jobs, Kozol begins to miss children and decides to visit various city schools to see how the education system is serving our nation's children firsthand. Observant and careful in his research, Kozol traverses the country jotting notes. To his deep shame and grief, he discovers that many of the problems of racism, segregation and poverty that he and friends once fought to conquer still exist. Weaving together the actual comments made by children with research on law cases and personal observations, he comes to the conclusion that racism is at the root of poor education, and money is the tool that perpetuates a bad system.

Raymond Abbott

Raymond Abbott is a disadvantaged child whose friends and family bring a case...
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