A Report Card on America's Schools after 20 Years.

Kozol, Jonathan

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ERIC Number: EJ378732

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Publication Date: 1988

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A Report Card on America's Schools after 20 Years.

Kozol, Jonathan

School Administrator, v45 n9 p13-14 Oct 1988

This article describes the rapidly deteriorating conditions of innercity schools as a result of reductions in federal expenditures for public education during the Reagan Administration. It is argued that "excellence," in the Reagan agenda, has become a code word for retreat from equity. (TE)

Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Economic Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Elitism, Expenditure per Student, Federal Programs, Institutional Survival, Social Stratification, Urban Schools

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers

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Language: English

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