I appreciate this commentary on American education reform from Scott Newstock in How to Think Like Shakespeare:
“Jonathan Kozol’s Savage Inequalities (1991) repudiates the fantasy that any school can bootstrap itself to ‘excellence’ with just the right effort, just the right teachers, just the right curriculum, just the right assessment, just the right technology, just the right management, just the right… anything but the amelioration of poverty.”
It has been thirty years since Kozol wrote Savage Inequalities. The inequalities are still present. May 2021 be the year we take action in the name of equity and justice.