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Death at an Early Age: The Destruction of the Hearts and Minds of Negro Children in the Boston Public Schools

Jonathan Kozol

What happens to children in a segregated, failing school system, as seen day by day by a young teacher in Boston?

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Jonathan Kozol

Why read it

  • You will see why small repairs cannot rescue a school system built on segregation, however hard one principal tries
  • You will spot how an ordinary textbook can teach children racial contempt, praising Arabs as white while showing Africans hiding in the jungle
  • You will question what dedication means when, as the author found, teachers put their own egos above hundreds of children

Who it is for

  • Teachers new to schools that serve poor or segregated children
  • Parents who sense a school is failing their child
  • Readers of civil rights history set outside the South

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