Shame of the Nation

In The Shame Of The Nation, Jonathan Kozol points out that after the landmark Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision, most of our urban schools are almost as segregated as they were then. Kozol calls this apartheid schooling, and points out a litany of reasons from poor funding to substandard teachers' wages to teaching to the standardized tests. After visiting inner-city schools for six years, he finds most schools disinclined to make a difference in their students' education, leaving them with little hope and ambition and scandalous graduation rates. Besides listing the type of problems that seem impossible to overcome. Kozol also shows teachers and schools that have overcome the odds. The Sshame of the Nation will open up your heart and mind.