JONATHAN KOZOL AN END TO INEQUALITY

Kozol's arguments for how to address the problems his book lays out rest on two things: school integration, as represented by the longstanding METCO program through which a fraction of Boston children attend public schools in the surrounding suburbs; and massive federal and state spending, grounded at least conceptually in a reparations framework, to support the expansion of such programs. [...]he could take a bold, all-in approach to achieving his goal, and his unwillingness to do so here is both telling and frustrating. In outlawing segregation, the federal government did not undertake a sweeping program to build "equal" water fountains across the country.