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 Awardwinning 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."

Available for the first time in an accessible paperback format, this "powerful and provocative cutting-edge analysis" (Ivn 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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Praise for An End to Inequality:

"An unapologetic cri de coeur about the shortcomings of the schools that serve poor Black and Hispanic children, and thus, the moral failure of the nation to end the inequality [Kozol] has documented for decades."
The New York Times

"An inspired and insightful analysis of race-based challenges in the American school system."
Kirkus Reviews(starred review)

"In this vigorous polemic, National Book Award winner Kozol . . . [offers] an impassioned indictment of elementary school education in the U.S. and acri de curfor racial equity."
Publishers Weekly

"Jonathan Kozols voice remains as fresh as ever, not least when he is examining the ongoing failure of the 1954 decision outlawing the lie of separate but equal. As he illustrates with numerous painful examples, the lie lives on in far too many schools where the shadow of plantation days is still a presence . . . and the abusive treatment of young children an accepted practice. Jonathan spells out what we can do, and need to do, in order to move this nation towards a more perfect union."
Charlayne Hunter-Gault, journalist and author most recently ofMy People: Five Decades of Writing About Black Lives

"For over fifty years, Jonathan Kozol has been calling our attention to the gross injustices perpetrated against children in our nations racially separate and unequal schools. Now, inAn End to Inequality, he reminds us that when children lose, we all lose, and our futures are imperiled. Thank you, Jonathan, for once again bringing your compassionate voice and critical perspective to this shameful American dilemma."
Pedro Noguera, dean, School of Education, University of Southern California

"InAn End to Inequality, Kozol has relentlessly confronted an unfiltered reality. Why, after all these years, do millions of Black and brown children remain in segregated schools where squalor and dysfunctional facilities degrade them intellectually and physically For Kozols transformative proposals, I urge you to read this jolting book."
Ralph Nader, Center for the Study of Responsive Law

"Heart-wrenching examples and astute argumentation. . . . This is Kozol at his best."
Bob Peterson, founding editor, Rethinking Schools

"A powerful and provocative cutting-edge analysis. . . . Should be required reading for advocates, educators, students, and their teachers."
Ivn Espinoza-Madrigal, executive director, Lawyers for Civil Rights

"Kozols critical insights about our nations schools, if we have the will to act on them politically, can help us to reconceive what public education ought to be in a fragile and increasingly endangered American democracy."
David C. Berliner, Regents professor of Education, Arizona State University

Author Bio

Jonathan Kozol's widely honored books include Savage Inequalities, Amazing Grace, The Shame of the Nation, and Rachel and Her Children: Homeless Families in America. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.