An End to Inequality
Breaking Down the Walls of Apartheid Education in America
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An “unapologetic cri de coeur” (New York Times) from the esteemed educator and bestselling author
“The legendary reformer[’s] . . . last stand against school inequality.” —Education Next
In 1967, Jonathan Kozol’s Death at an Early Age shook the education world, exposing the abuse and neglect of Black children in Boston’s public schools in a National Book Award–winning volume. Now, after more than fifty years spent visiting struggling, unequal schools, the author that Entertainment Weekly calls “a classic American muckraker with an eloquent prose style” has given us a book that Bob Peterson of Rethinking Schools deems “Kozol at his best.”
This “powerful and provocative cutting-edge analysis” (Iván Espinoza-Madrigal, executive director, Lawyers for Civil Rights) highlights the ongoing racial isolation in America’s public schools, compounded by rigid, punitive teaching methods. From the award-winning educator who WBUR radio says “has spent his life devoted to exposing the harms of segregation and telling the stories of those most impacted by inequality,” An End to Inequality is called “jolting” by Ralph Nader, and Charlayne Hunter-Gault says “Kozol’s voice remains fresh as ever.”
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In this vigorous polemic, National Book Award winner Kozol (Death at an Early Age) condemns the subjugation of Black and Latino elementary school children to an education that stifles their imagination, and he forcefully calls for busing and desegregation as the solution. Drawing on visits to classrooms across the U.S. and years of teaching experience, Kozol asserts that struggling urban schools are characterized by "a pressure-cooker ethos of tightly scripted training, an often morbid code of discipline, and coerced uniformity." Such a pedagogy, according to Kozol, "inculcates unquestioning conformity" and strips learning of both its joy and the "act of exploration." Most troubling to Kozol is that these "crudely autocratic" pedagogic practices are often accompanied by police presence in the schools and the use of physical punishment. Dismantling these "walls of apartheid" requires the government to invest heavily in racially integrated schooling, he argues: "millions of our children across lines of class and race in beautifully and culturally expansive and richly funded classrooms." Kozol's vivid classroom scenes depict how mandated and rigidly controlled teaching practices negatively impact students' education, as well as teachers' ability to treat their students with respect. The result is an impassioned indictment of elementary school education in the U.S. and a cri de cœur for racial equity.
