Savage Inequalities Summary

Jonathan Kozol has been very involved in education throughout his lifetime. Kozol had no initial intentions on getting involved in the education of our youth he simply stumbled upon it. He went into a lower income area of his town and asked an African American church member what he could do to help; the man replied with become a teacher (Jonathan Kozol at BOOST Conference). This was the beginning of a long and passionate journey into education.
The “Savage Inequalities” Kozol has written a book titled Savage Inedualities: Children in America’s Schools to help share with the people of America what is truly going on in the schools. Kozol (2011) shared in his speech at the BOOST Conference that one of the biggest inequalities that children face have to do with the schooling in inner city versus suburban schools. Most inner city schools have extremely large class sizes, upper 20’s to 30’s and even getting into the low 40’s, which most teachers see as an excessive amount of students in a small classroom (Jonathan Kozol at BOOST
This test can be used to evaluate schooling in the United States. According to College Board, the average mathematic score in 1967 was a 516 (out of 800) and the average verbal score was a 543 (Macionis, 2015, pg. 386). These scores have decreased over time to an average of 514 in mathematics and 496 in verbal in 2013 (Macionis, 2015, pg. 386). The lowering in scores could relate directly to the fact that more and more individuals in the United States are finding themselves living in poverty. In SAT Scores and Family Income, it becomes clear that increasing family incomes are linked to increasing SAT test scores. In this article, it shows that when moving up from one income group to the next (each income group represents a range of $20,000) there is an increase of over 12 points in each section (Rampell,