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Savage Inequalities  

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  • In the mid-1960s, Jonathan Kozol, a public elementary school teacher, published Death at an Early Age, a riveting account of teaching 4th grade in Boston. He documented in detail the banal humiliations, mistreatment, and injustices endured by poor Black students in Northern schools. [Source: Encyclopedia of Curriculum Studies; Savage Inequalities]

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