Question

In his book, Savage Inequalities, former teacher Jonathan Kozol conducted an ethnography of public schools in major cities across the United States. According to his study, how do schools reinforce inequality?

Answer 1

In this book, Jonathan Kozol wrote an ethnography of public schools in Chicago and its suburbs. Kozol argued that, because schools were funded by local property taxes, children in poor neighborhoods were necessarily trapped in poor schools. This system reinforces inequality. He also records the many differences between "poor" and "rich" schools," which included the difference in funding in arts and music and the number of foreign language teachers, nurses, librarians and psychologists.