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I picked this book up while researching for my book, since my protagonist grew up in the bronx housing projects. It chronicles the social effects of underinvestment and neglect in public schools. Children in americas schools looks at the ways the government, the society, and the educational system fail poor children, especially poor africanamerican children, in the united states. Within within savage inequalitiessavage inequalities kozol argues that americakozol argues that americas schools are more s schools are more segregated now then they were in 1954. About the book raw sewage and jail may not be the first words that. Children in americas schools, and responded to viewer comments and questions he was interviewed at the 2016 tucson festival of books.
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