So, yesterday was the official kick-off of the Keep Portland Weird festival here in Paris, which meant that I had a reading/screening in the...
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Yet another passionate and beautifully written book from Jonathan Kozol. This should be required reading for the President and Congress. A disturbing portrait of what is going on in America's schools and how many children we are leaving behind. This book should provoke us all to do more for our nation's children, so that our educational system can live up to its promises.
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The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America by Jonathan Kozol
Rachel Lessem, March 19, 2007
Yet another passionate and beautifully written book from Jonathan Kozol. This should be required reading for the President and Congress. A disturbing portrait of what is going on in America's schools and how many children we are leaving behind. This book should provoke us all to do more for our nation's children, so that our educational system can live up to its promises.(13 of 21 readers found this comment helpful)