Death at an Early Age : The Classic Indictment of Inner-City Education

Jonathan Kozol; Robert Coles
Plume Books
 9780452262928
0-452-26292-5

WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD In 1964, Jonathan Kozol entered the Boston Public School system to teach fourth grade at one of its most overcrowded inner-city schools. Here, he unflinchingly exposes.

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the disturbing "destruction of hearts and minds in the Boston public school." Death at an Early Age is the unsparing, heart-wrenching account of the year he spent there--the most shocking and powerful personal story ever told by a young teacher, now updated with a new epilogue by the author. "Honest and terrifying... the heartbreaking story it tells has to be read."--Robert Coles, The New York Times Book Review "Will anger you to the boiling point and may make you want to weep... I recommend--with considerable urgency--Death at an Early Age."--Chicago Tribune