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Filled with the passionate voices of children, principals, and teachers, and some of the most revered leaders in the black community, The Shame of the Nation pays tribute to those undefeated educators who persist against the odds, but directly challenges the chilling practices now being forced upon our urban systems by the Bush administration. In their place, Kozol offers a humane, dramatic challenge to our nation to fulfill at last the promise made some 50 years ago to all our youngest citizens.]]> 51536 7 1500228 1 8 2000 The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America total:902|5:308|4:396|3:156|2:38|1:4| 902 3672 1504 122 14084 4.17 7438 806 16647059 666804 51536 1400052459 9781400052455 106 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170381052m/51536.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170381052s/51536.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51536.The_Shame_of_the_Nation_The_Restoration_of_Apartheid_Schooling_in_America 4.07 846
Filled with the passionate voices of children, principals, and teachers, and some of the most revered leaders in the black community, The Shame of the Nation pays tribute to those undefeated educators who persist against the odds, but directly challenges the chilling practices now being forced upon our urban systems by the Bush administration. In their place, Kozol offers a humane, dramatic challenge to our nation to fulfill at last the promise made some 50 years ago to all our youngest citizens.]]> 2000 5 7 false Thu Feb 28 17:14:54 -0800 2008 Thu Feb 28 17:14:54 -0800 2008 more...]]> 429165 38958 51544 073946552X 9780739465523 5 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170381055m/51544.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170381055s/51544.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51544.The_Shame_of_the_Nation_The_Restoration_of_Apartheid_Schooling_in_America 4.23 22
Filled with the passionate voices of children, principals, and teachers, and some of the most revered leaders in the black community, The Shame of the Nation pays tribute to those undefeated educators who persist against the odds, but directly challenges the chilling practices now being forced upon our urban systems by the Bush administration. In their place, Kozol offers a humane, dramatic challenge to our nation to fulfill at last the promise made some 50 years ago to all our youngest citizens.]]> 2000 5 1 false Fri Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Sun Mar 25 20:54:12 -0700 2007 Wed Dec 16 17:06:00 -0800 2009 more...]]> 73657850 406005 51536 1400052459 9781400052455 106 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170381052m/51536.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170381052s/51536.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51536.The_Shame_of_the_Nation_The_Restoration_of_Apartheid_Schooling_in_America 4.07 902
Filled with the passionate voices of children, principals, and teachers, and some of the most revered leaders in the black community, The Shame of the Nation pays tribute to those undefeated educators who persist against the odds, but directly challenges the chilling practices now being forced upon our urban systems by the Bush administration. In their place, Kozol offers a humane, dramatic challenge to our nation to fulfill at last the promise made some 50 years ago to all our youngest citizens.]]> 2000 4 0 false Tue Oct 06 13:51:08 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 08 10:43:18 -0700 2009 more...]]> 8248727 390751 51536 1400052459 9781400052455 106 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170381052m/51536.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170381052s/51536.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51536.The_Shame_of_the_Nation_The_Restoration_of_Apartheid_Schooling_in_America 4.07 902
Filled with the passionate voices of children, principals, and teachers, and some of the most revered leaders in the black community, The Shame of the Nation pays tribute to those undefeated educators who persist against the odds, but directly challenges the chilling practices now being forced upon our urban systems by the Bush administration. In their place, Kozol offers a humane, dramatic challenge to our nation to fulfill at last the promise made some 50 years ago to all our youngest citizens.]]> 2000 2 1 false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Oct 25 16:21:23 -0700 2007 Thu Oct 25 16:23:41 -0700 2007 more...]]> 37874911 1009560 51536 1400052459 9781400052455 106 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170381052m/51536.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170381052s/51536.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51536.The_Shame_of_the_Nation_The_Restoration_of_Apartheid_Schooling_in_America 4.07 902
Filled with the passionate voices of children, principals, and teachers, and some of the most revered leaders in the black community, The Shame of the Nation pays tribute to those undefeated educators who persist against the odds, but directly challenges the chilling practices now being forced upon our urban systems by the Bush administration. In their place, Kozol offers a humane, dramatic challenge to our nation to fulfill at last the promise made some 50 years ago to all our youngest citizens.]]> 2000 5 0 false Tue Nov 25 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 16 11:54:33 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 23 17:08:49 -0800 2008 1 more...]]> 45460636 1008236 1508665 1400052440 9781400052448 8 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1184448609m/1508665.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1184448609s/1508665.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1508665.The_Shame_of_the_Nation_The_Restoration_of_Apartheid_Schooling_in_America 4.04 24
Over the past several years, Jonathan Kozol has visited nearly 60 public schools. Virtually everywhere, he finds that conditions have grown worse for inner-city children in the 15 years since federal courts began dismantling the landmark ruling in Brown v. Board of Education. First, a state of nearly absolute apartheid now prevails in thousands of our schools. The segregation of black children has reverted to a level that the nation has not seen since 1968. Few of the students in these schools know white children any longer. Second, a protomilitary form of discipline has now emerged, modeled on stick-and-carrot methods of behavioral control traditionally used in prisons but targeted exclusively at black and Hispanic children. And third, as high-stakes testing takes on pathological and punitive dimensions, liberal education in our inner-city schools has been increasingly replaced by culturally barren and robotic methods of instruction that would be rejected out of hand by schools that serve the mainstream of society.

Filled with the passionate voices of children and their teachers and some of the most revered and trusted leaders in the black community, The Shame of the Nation is a triumph of firsthand reporting that pays tribute to those undefeated educators who persist against the odds, but directly challenges the chilling practices now being forced upon our urban systems by the Bush administration. In their place, Kozol offers a humane, dramatic challenge to our nation to fulfill at last the promise made some 50 years ago to all our youngest citizens.


From The Shame of the Nation

“I went to Washington to challenge the soft bigotry of low expectations,” the president said in his campaign for reelection in September 2004. “It’s working. It’s making a difference.” It is one of those deadly lies, which, by sheer repetition, is at length accepted by large numbers of Americans as, perhaps, a rough approximation of the truth. But it is not the truth, and it is not an innocent misstatement of the facts. It is a devious appeasement of the heartache of the parents of the poor and, if it is not forcefully resisted and denounced, it is going to lead our nation even further in a perilous direction.


Also available as a Random House AudioBook and an eBook]]> 2000 0 0 false Thu Feb 05 09:35:57 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 09:35:57 -0800 2009 Kozol has been one of the most relentless critics of educational and social inequalities in the United States. After 40 years, neither his energy nor his outrage appears to be exhausted. In turning his gaze to school segregation, he discovers what should be obvious to anyone who has spent time in pu...

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Filled with the passionate voices of children, principals, and teachers, and some of the most revered leaders in the black community, The Shame of the Nation pays tribute to those undefeated educators who persist against the odds, but directly challenges the chilling practices now being forced upon our urban systems by the Bush administration. In their place, Kozol offers a humane, dramatic challenge to our nation to fulfill at last the promise made some 50 years ago to all our youngest citizens.]]> 2000 2 0 false Sun Mar 29 09:47:17 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 29 10:00:48 -0700 2009 more...]]> 13540746 138010 51536 1400052459 9781400052455 106 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170381052m/51536.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170381052s/51536.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51536.The_Shame_of_the_Nation_The_Restoration_of_Apartheid_Schooling_in_America 4.07 902
Filled with the passionate voices of children, principals, and teachers, and some of the most revered leaders in the black community, The Shame of the Nation pays tribute to those undefeated educators who persist against the odds, but directly challenges the chilling practices now being forced upon our urban systems by the Bush administration. In their place, Kozol offers a humane, dramatic challenge to our nation to fulfill at last the promise made some 50 years ago to all our youngest citizens.]]> 2000 5 1 false Fri Jan 25 12:59:25 -0800 2008 Wed Feb 06 12:18:39 -0800 2008 75969749 2882037 51536 1400052459 9781400052455 106 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170381052m/51536.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170381052s/51536.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51536.The_Shame_of_the_Nation_The_Restoration_of_Apartheid_Schooling_in_America 4.07 902
Filled with the passionate voices of children, principals, and teachers, and some of the most revered leaders in the black community, The Shame of the Nation pays tribute to those undefeated educators who persist against the odds, but directly challenges the chilling practices now being forced upon our urban systems by the Bush administration. In their place, Kozol offers a humane, dramatic challenge to our nation to fulfill at last the promise made some 50 years ago to all our youngest citizens.]]> 2000 4 0 false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Tue Oct 27 21:08:51 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 27 21:16:36 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> 60800495 1592615 51536 1400052459 9781400052455 106 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170381052m/51536.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170381052s/51536.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51536.The_Shame_of_the_Nation_The_Restoration_of_Apartheid_Schooling_in_America 4.07 902
Filled with the passionate voices of children, principals, and teachers, and some of the most revered leaders in the black community, The Shame of the Nation pays tribute to those undefeated educators who persist against the odds, but directly challenges the chilling practices now being forced upon our urban systems by the Bush administration. In their place, Kozol offers a humane, dramatic challenge to our nation to fulfill at last the promise made some 50 years ago to all our youngest citizens.]]> 2000 3 0 false Mon Aug 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 23 10:56:25 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 03 13:01:36 -0700 2009 more...]]> 37049547 769412 51536 1400052459 9781400052455 106 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170381052m/51536.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170381052s/51536.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51536.The_Shame_of_the_Nation_The_Restoration_of_Apartheid_Schooling_in_America 4.07 902
Filled with the passionate voices of children, principals, and teachers, and some of the most revered leaders in the black community, The Shame of the Nation pays tribute to those undefeated educators who persist against the odds, but directly challenges the chilling practices now being forced upon our urban systems by the Bush administration. In their place, Kozol offers a humane, dramatic challenge to our nation to fulfill at last the promise made some 50 years ago to all our youngest citizens.]]> 2000 4 0 false Fri Feb 06 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 06 12:28:13 -0800 2008 Tue Feb 10 09:29:23 -0800 2009 more...]]> 34241788 190365 1508665 1400052440 9781400052448 8 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1184448609m/1508665.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1184448609s/1508665.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1508665.The_Shame_of_the_Nation_The_Restoration_of_Apartheid_Schooling_in_America 4.07 902
Over the past several years, Jonathan Kozol has visited nearly 60 public schools. Virtually everywhere, he finds that conditions have grown worse for inner-city children in the 15 years since federal courts began dismantling the landmark ruling in Brown v. Board of Education. First, a state of nearly absolute apartheid now prevails in thousands of our schools. The segregation of black children has reverted to a level that the nation has not seen since 1968. Few of the students in these schools know white children any longer. Second, a protomilitary form of discipline has now emerged, modeled on stick-and-carrot methods of behavioral control traditionally used in prisons but targeted exclusively at black and Hispanic children. And third, as high-stakes testing takes on pathological and punitive dimensions, liberal education in our inner-city schools has been increasingly replaced by culturally barren and robotic methods of instruction that would be rejected out of hand by schools that serve the mainstream of society.

Filled with the passionate voices of children and their teachers and some of the most revered and trusted leaders in the black community, The Shame of the Nation is a triumph of firsthand reporting that pays tribute to those undefeated educators who persist against the odds, but directly challenges the chilling practices now being forced upon our urban systems by the Bush administration. In their place, Kozol offers a humane, dramatic challenge to our nation to fulfill at last the promise made some 50 years ago to all our youngest citizens.


From The Shame of the Nation

“I went to Washington to challenge the soft bigotry of low expectations,” the president said in his campaign for reelection in September 2004. “It’s working. It’s making a difference.” It is one of those deadly lies, which, by sheer repetition, is at length accepted by large numbers of Americans as, perhaps, a rough approximation of the truth. But it is not the truth, and it is not an innocent misstatement of the facts. It is a devious appeasement of the heartache of the parents of the poor and, if it is not forcefully resisted and denounced, it is going to lead our nation even further in a perilous direction.


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Filled with the passionate voices of children, principals, and teachers, and some of the most revered leaders in the black community, The Shame of the Nation pays tribute to those undefeated educators who persist against the odds, but directly challenges the chilling practices now being forced upon our urban systems by the Bush administration. In their place, Kozol offers a humane, dramatic challenge to our nation to fulfill at last the promise made some 50 years ago to all our youngest citizens.]]> 2000 4 0 false Thu Mar 27 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Mar 17 17:29:57 -0700 2008 Sun Apr 20 04:56:55 -0700 2008 more...]]> 17411304 185964 2526428 0739309854 9780739309858 2 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2526428.The_Shame_of_the_Nation_The_Restoration_of_Apartheid_Schooling_in_America 4.00 4
Over the past several years, Jonathan Kozol has visited nearly 60 public schools. Virtually everywhere, he finds that conditions have grown worse for inner-city children in the 15 years since federal courts began dismantling the landmark ruling in Brown v. Board of Education. First, a state of nearly absolute apartheid now prevails in thousands of our schools. The segregation of black children has reverted to a level that the nation has not seen since 1968. Few of the students in these schools know white children any longer. Second, a protomilitary form of discipline has now emerged, modeled on stick-and-carrot methods of behavioral control traditionally used in prisons but targeted exclusively at black and Hispanic children. And third, as high-stakes testing takes on pathological and punitive dimensions, liberal education in our inner-city schools has been increasingly replaced by culturally barren and robotic methods of instruction that would be rejected out of hand by schools that serve the mainstream of society.

Filled with the passionate voices of children and their teachers and some of the most revered and trusted leaders in the black community, The Shame of the Nation is a triumph of firsthand reporting that pays tribute to those undefeated educators who persist against the odds, but directly challenges the chilling practices now being forced upon our urban systems by the Bush administration. In their place, Kozol offers a humane, dramatic challenge to our nation to fulfill at last the promise made some 50 years ago to all our youngest citizens.


From The Shame of the Nation

“I went to Washington to challenge the soft bigotry of low expectations,” the president said in his campaign for reelection in September 2004. “It’s working. It’s making a difference.” It is one of those deadly lies, which, by sheer repetition, is at length accepted by large numbers of Americans as, perhaps, a rough approximation of the truth. But it is not the truth, and it is not an innocent misstatement of the facts. It is a devious appeasement of the heartache of the parents of the poor and, if it is not forcefully resisted and denounced, it is going to lead our nation even further in a perilous direction.


Also available as a Random House AudioBook and an eBook


From the Hardcover edition.]]> 2000 5 0 false Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Mar 09 19:49:56 -0700 2008 Sun Mar 09 21:16:38 -0700 2008 more...]]> 17072787 945136 51536 1400052459 9781400052455 106 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170381052m/51536.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170381052s/51536.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51536.The_Shame_of_the_Nation_The_Restoration_of_Apartheid_Schooling_in_America 4.07 902
Filled with the passionate voices of children, principals, and teachers, and some of the most revered leaders in the black community, The Shame of the Nation pays tribute to those undefeated educators who persist against the odds, but directly challenges the chilling practices now being forced upon our urban systems by the Bush administration. In their place, Kozol offers a humane, dramatic challenge to our nation to fulfill at last the promise made some 50 years ago to all our youngest citizens.]]> 2000 5 0 false Thu Aug 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Mar 05 07:57:36 -0800 2008 Fri Sep 11 07:20:24 -0700 2009 more...]]> 14422201 215947 51536 1400052459 9781400052455 106 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170381052m/51536.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170381052s/51536.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51536.The_Shame_of_the_Nation_The_Restoration_of_Apartheid_Schooling_in_America 4.07 902
Filled with the passionate voices of children, principals, and teachers, and some of the most revered leaders in the black community, The Shame of the Nation pays tribute to those undefeated educators who persist against the odds, but directly challenges the chilling practices now being forced upon our urban systems by the Bush administration. In their place, Kozol offers a humane, dramatic challenge to our nation to fulfill at last the promise made some 50 years ago to all our youngest citizens.]]> 2000 4 0 false Sat Mar 22 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Feb 02 22:15:28 -0800 2008 Wed Mar 26 21:50:26 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5629339 316163 51536 1400052459 9781400052455 106 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170381052m/51536.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170381052s/51536.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51536.The_Shame_of_the_Nation_The_Restoration_of_Apartheid_Schooling_in_America 4.07 902
Filled with the passionate voices of children, principals, and teachers, and some of the most revered leaders in the black community, The Shame of the Nation pays tribute to those undefeated educators who persist against the odds, but directly challenges the chilling practices now being forced upon our urban systems by the Bush administration. In their place, Kozol offers a humane, dramatic challenge to our nation to fulfill at last the promise made some 50 years ago to all our youngest citizens.]]> 2000 5 0 false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Sep 04 07:08:07 -0700 2007 Tue Sep 04 07:12:46 -0700 2007 more...]]> 68633089 1332954 51536 1400052459 9781400052455 106 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170381052m/51536.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170381052s/51536.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51536.The_Shame_of_the_Nation_The_Restoration_of_Apartheid_Schooling_in_America 4.07 902
Filled with the passionate voices of children, principals, and teachers, and some of the most revered leaders in the black community, The Shame of the Nation pays tribute to those undefeated educators who persist against the odds, but directly challenges the chilling practices now being forced upon our urban systems by the Bush administration. In their place, Kozol offers a humane, dramatic challenge to our nation to fulfill at last the promise made some 50 years ago to all our youngest citizens.]]> 2000 3 0 false Thu Sep 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 23 20:13:50 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 10 18:10:11 -0700 2009 more...]]> 52303959 83731 1508665 1400052440 9781400052448 8 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1184448609m/1508665.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1184448609s/1508665.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1508665.The_Shame_of_the_Nation_The_Restoration_of_Apartheid_Schooling_in_America 4.07 902
Over the past several years, Jonathan Kozol has visited nearly 60 public schools. Virtually everywhere, he finds that conditions have grown worse for inner-city children in the 15 years since federal courts began dismantling the landmark ruling in Brown v. Board of Education. First, a state of nearly absolute apartheid now prevails in thousands of our schools. The segregation of black children has reverted to a level that the nation has not seen since 1968. Few of the students in these schools know white children any longer. Second, a protomilitary form of discipline has now emerged, modeled on stick-and-carrot methods of behavioral control traditionally used in prisons but targeted exclusively at black and Hispanic children. And third, as high-stakes testing takes on pathological and punitive dimensions, liberal education in our inner-city schools has been increasingly replaced by culturally barren and robotic methods of instruction that would be rejected out of hand by schools that serve the mainstream of society.

Filled with the passionate voices of children and their teachers and some of the most revered and trusted leaders in the black community, The Shame of the Nation is a triumph of firsthand reporting that pays tribute to those undefeated educators who persist against the odds, but directly challenges the chilling practices now being forced upon our urban systems by the Bush administration. In their place, Kozol offers a humane, dramatic challenge to our nation to fulfill at last the promise made some 50 years ago to all our youngest citizens.


From The Shame of the Nation

“I went to Washington to challenge the soft bigotry of low expectations,” the president said in his campaign for reelection in September 2004. “It’s working. It’s making a difference.” It is one of those deadly lies, which, by sheer repetition, is at length accepted by large numbers of Americans as, perhaps, a rough approximation of the truth. But it is not the truth, and it is not an innocent misstatement of the facts. It is a devious appeasement of the heartache of the parents of the poor and, if it is not forcefully resisted and denounced, it is going to lead our nation even further in a perilous direction.


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Filled with the passionate voices of children, principals, and teachers, and some of the most revered leaders in the black community, The Shame of the Nation pays tribute to those undefeated educators who persist against the odds, but directly challenges the chilling practices now being forced upon our urban systems by the Bush administration. In their place, Kozol offers a humane, dramatic challenge to our nation to fulfill at last the promise made some 50 years ago to all our youngest citizens.]]> 2000 4 0 false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Aug 29 17:19:34 -0700 2007 Thu Aug 30 20:26:33 -0700 2007 more...]]> 8 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=51536