Matthew McElroy ’s Reviews > Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools > Status Update

Hard to believe I'm almost finished. This has been excellent, though probably not as enlightening as I hoped. The last chapter was an editorial on how inexcusable it is that we don't give students a chance at equal opportunities.
Then Kozol elaborates on the myriad excuses people for not providing children with equal opportunities. He is clearly passionate about his subject in a way too few people are.

I'm trying to figure out Kozol's big goal. The notion that inner city schools are wildly underfunded can't be groundbreaking, though I can't speak to how what role books like this played in making this known to the public.
Compound that with A) how many people read this book, and B) the segregation is built into the system. At some point I would like Kozol to start offering solutions.

I'm reading this at least a decade late. I wasn't going to read it at nine years old, when it was published, and i didn't take an interest in education until I was about 20 (approximately 2000). I'd heard about this book, and it lives up to the hype.
As someone who could have seen both sides of education- Chicago, but moved to a middle-class suburb of Philadelphia these are "there but for the grace of God" moments.