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  <title><![CDATA[Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools]]></title>
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  <default-description>National Book Award-winning author Jonathan Kozol presents his shocking account of the American educational system in this stunning &lt;I&gt;New York Times&lt;/I&gt; bestseller, which has sold more than 250,000 hardcover copies.</default-description>
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  <original-publication-year type="integer">1991</original-publication-year>
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  <read_at>Wed Jun 25 19:45:40 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[*FIRST IMPRESSION*<br/><br/>Is this just going to be Mama Might Be Better Off Dead: The Education Chapter?<br/><br/>*HALFWAY THROUGH*<br/><br/>Answer to the question above: yes.  <br/><br/>Look, Mr. Kozol, I'm not anti-expose, but I hate being confronted with a tragic and intractable problem...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24324059">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Every American should be required to read this book.]]></body>
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  <date_added>Thu Mar 20 07:15:56 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[After teaching for a stint in a school similar to what Kozol talks about, I read his work. I decided that while it is easy to get caught up in the buzz words and emotives Kozol uses in his rhetoric, he really does not provide us with a solution. True, his work is important in that it highlights disp...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18172663">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Sat Jun 30 18:13:13 -0700 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[A heart-wrenching jeremiad about the sorry state of minority schools in this country.  Kozol has stated in interviews that we are worse off (both in conditions and segregation) than we were before Brown vs. Board of Education.  That seems hyperbolic, but after reading his observations here, it's har...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2577387">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Nov 15 08:57:44 -0800 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Nov 15 09:01:33 -0800 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Everyone knows that this is a masterpiece.  If you ever found yourself trying to argue with someone who believes that money does not matter in schools and that urban schools need tough leaders to getthemselves together, then read this book.  It tears this argument into scraps.  Also it helps to debu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9148553">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="5956540">
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[future educators, parents who have kids in public schools, and anyone who pays taxes]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Sep 09 15:56:53 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Sep 23 12:39:13 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[What did I learn? I learned that without realizing it my tax money is going to creating a segregated system of schooling with unrealistic standards applied to all people's, and held especially high for those who have the least help.<br/><br/>I was especially struck by the statement that Kozol made...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5956540">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="46398667">
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  <date_added>Sun Feb 15 06:21:07 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Feb 15 06:27:11 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I can't believe I didn't know about this book until recently.  It opened my eyes to an education system that I already knew existed but didn't know how bad it was.  Kozol looks at several different school districts across the country, poor and rich alike, and explores how there are gross inequities ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46398667">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="56341848">
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  <read_at>Fri May 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat May 16 21:57:19 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[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 tha...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56341848">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="53139869">
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    <name><![CDATA[Molly]]></name>
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  <read_at>Wed Apr 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is an important book. It does a great job of giving a detailed descripitio of the spectrum of school quality in our country. Of course it is disheartening to see the inequality and the lack of leadership in poor urban schools, but what is even more disturbing is the limited change that has occu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53139869">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="38483433">
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    <name><![CDATA[Katie]]></name>
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  <read_at>Tue Nov 18 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book for an english class and was not looking forward to begining it. The first chapter began with talking about &quot;sewage-covered streets&quot; and a murder that occured behind the local school. <em>Who would really want to read about that?</em> I d known from reading the book's description t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38483433">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="21992783">
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  <read_at>Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2000</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The reason I became a teacher]]></body>
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    <review id="69178989">
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    <body><![CDATA[As noted elsewhere, this is a book that bears witness rather than a book than proposes changes.  Kozol has said publicly that he no longer believes that there is the will to change this problem (i.e., inequality in schools), and witness is all that he can do.  I read a review (in the New Republic, I...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69178989">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <name><![CDATA[Dan]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is an intimate investigation into the poorest schools in the United States.  Published in 1991, the book is a bit dated and hasn't aged too well but effectively communicates a still-relevant message: for many children in the US, education is a joke.  The tax system that provides public sch...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54977760">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="43918939">
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 20 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Kozol brings you into the lives of the children in this book through his writing. He has written an eye-opening narrative interlaced with brutal facts and scary truths about public education. Things may have changed slightly in the twenty years since it's been written, but it only emphasizes how muc...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43918939">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Although very well written, I had a hard time getting through this book in the beginning because a narrative of the author seemed so contrived and fake that I didn't have any faith in the author's credibility. He begins by recounting a time when he read poems by Robert Frost and Langston Hughes to 4...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40183798">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="37035155">
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  <read_at>Wed Feb 25 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was published in 1991, same year I graduated from a decrepid high school, so although I did not go to a minority, inner-city school, I still very much felt like I understood what he was talking about, and related to it very much even though the statistics etc are now (sadly) very, very old...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37035155">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <recommended_by><![CDATA[Waidinthewater]]></recommended_by>
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    <body><![CDATA[If we can't help schools provide better educations by &quot;throwing money at them,&quot; as the powerful often argue, then why do those same speakers so generously fund their own children's schools?<br/><br/>Kozol asked this question in <em>Savage Inequalities</em>, and it remains fresh in my mind years a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29320911">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is a little on the older side now, but I'm sure the observations about inequality in our schools that Jonathan Kozol made in the late 1980s and early 1990s are pretty much still true.<br/><br/>Kozol visited a number of schools across the country (East Saint Louis, Chicago, New York City,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7323062">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The one book that made me decide that education was the field of sociology that I DEFINITELY wanted to commit to. Another good read from Kozol. <br/><br/>Side note: The picture of the little boy on the far left is the ex-boyfriend of a girl I went to school with at Villanova. So I guess, technical...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5629656">more...</a>]]></body>
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