Blurb

Jonathan Kozol, a renowned educator, author, and activist who began his teaching career in 1964, will open your eyes to the realities of an education crisis that few people know about and even fewer like to acknowledge. Kozol invites his readers into the segregated classrooms, testing focused curriculums, and “morbid looking buildings” of today’s Apartheid schools. Through his meticulous incorporation of research and personal experience in working with students and faculty from approximately 60 schools in 30 different districts, Kozol is able to shed light on the dark secrets and disturbing truths of our nation's inner city schools that the government and school officials do not want us to know. The Shame of the Nation raises a question that most shudder at the thought of: is another civil right's movement necessary to, once again, desegregate United States schools?