(1971), "Savage Inequalities: American Schools, Still Separate, Still Unequal."

It was featured in the Jonathan Kozol book Savage Inequalities.

"This is a classically segregated suburb and grossly unequal," said Jonathan Kozol, who studied Long Island school districts for his book on American education, "Savage Inequalities."

The fund's current goal is to help children Mr. Kozol met while working on "Savage Inequalities," his recent indictment of the American education system.

Publisher's Weekly, for the first time in its history, endorsed "Savage Inequalities" on its cover, imploring President George Bush to read it.

The strongest indictment of the Government's insensitivity and parsimony in "Savage Inequalities" is heard in the voices of the children and their teachers.

His earlier books, "On Being a Teacher," "Illiterate America" and "Death at an Early Age," can be read as prologues to "Savage Inequalities."

The human story in "Savage Inequalities" is particularly heartbreaking.

Based on the book "Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools," by Jonathan Kozol.

At no point does "Savage Inequalities" disparage the desire to get ahead, or a world in which some rise and others fall behind.