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Jonathan kozol is the national book awardwinning author of fire in the ashes, savage inequalities, death at an early age, and other new york times bestselling nonfiction. Kozol believes that children from poor families are cheated out of a future due to the vastly underequipped, understaffed, and underfunded schools that exist in. Savage inequalities new york times bestseller an impassioned book, laced with anger and indignation, about how our public education system scorns so many of our children. Savage inequalities is a 1991 book by jonathan kozol subtitled children in americas schools. The little girls have tiny voices and they squirm about on little chairs and lean forward.
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