Has any one read this book?

Question

It's call Savage Inequalities By Jonathan Kozol. If you have what can you tell me about it.

Answer 1

Gotta wonder about anyone who spends the time replying just to say "nope" I haven't read it. Why bother?

Anyhow, Kozol is a big critic of the way we finance public education (generally local property taxes, but even state and federal subsidies, he claims, only worsen the problem). The "Savage Inequalities" of the title refer to the way a rich community spends gobs of money per pupil in their schools and the neighboring poor community has to scrape by. Or even in a big city like New York, where some well-maintained nice schools in nice communities get the same amount of money from the NYC Board of Ed. as an overcrowded dilapidated school in the slums, even though the latter school "needs" the money more. The basic thesis is that there is no way to have equally sound education when wildly disparate amounts of money are spent by varying communities. It's a book that really scares the stuffing out of you as he describes the simply awful conditions of some of the country's worst schools. Kinda depressing.

Answer 2

Yes, it is about taxpayers money not being spent appropriately in our nation's schools. It is a very good book, you should read it.

Answer 3

yes, i gave a review on this book..its eye opening
you wonder how much of our tax money is wasted in other areas besides education

Answer 4

never heard of that book

Answer 5

I can tell you I haven't read it.