Jonathan Kozol, author of Savage Inequalities, began his teaching career in an overpopulated, segregated school where he was fired for innovation. Kozol became interested in illiteracy within the United States, but realized that he wanted to regain focus on children. This led him to visit poor schools across the country to explore the truth of the inequalities in American schools. Kozol's experience reals that the American public education system is so discriminatory that it is destroying children's change for a successful future by setting them up for failure.
This idea permeates through each of the cities that Kozol visits. In East St. Louis, there is a lack of teacher efficacy, for example, the home economics teacher states that the introductory
This idea permeates through each of the cities that Kozol visits. In East St. Louis, there is a lack of teacher efficacy, for example, the home economics teacher states that the introductory