Jonathan Kozol's acceptance speech of the Friend of Education Award, given by the National Education Association. Kozol, an educator speaks about the overcrowded and dilapidated schools he has visited throughout the United States, the devastation of poverty on inner city schools, and the inferior quality of minority schools when compared to their suburban counterparts. He points to the insensitivity of Washington bureaucrats for the demise of public education, and concludes by calling for the Federal government to reorganize their priorities by taking money away from the Pentagon and giving it to education.|OVERCROWDING EDUCATION IN THE UNITED STATES / Jonathan Kozol. - Jonathan Kozol's acceptance speech of the Friend of Education Award, given by the National Education Association. Kozol, an educator speaks about the overcrowded and dilapidated schools he has visited throughout the United States, the devastation of poverty on inner city schools, and the inferior quality of minority schools when compared to their suburban counterparts. He points to the insensitivity of Washington bureaucrates for the demise of public education, and concludes by calling for the Federal government to reorganize their priorities by taking money away from the Pentagon and giving it to education. - RECORDED: Washington, DC, 7 July 1992.
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