Prisoners of silence: Breaking the bonds of adult illiteracy in the United States by Jonathan Kozol - 1980

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

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Continuum. Very Good- in Fair dust jacket. 1980. Hardcover. 0826400051 . Binding solid. Pages unmarked and only a little yellowed. Black cloth cover has minor wear to edges, but otherwise okay. Dustjacket is discolored and has some wear to edges, especially spine tips. ; 8.3 X 5.3 X 0.2 inches; 113 pages .

New York. 1980. Continuum. 1st Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0826400051. 113 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Vikki Sheatsley. Signed by the Author. keywords: Education Illiteracy . FROM THE PUBLISHER - PRISONERS OF SILENCE is a book about those millions of American adults who cannot read or write. The very fact that estimates as to the number of such victims of mass ignorance and miseducation range from a minimum of twenty million to a high of sixty-four million serves only to emphasize the dimensions of our national indifference to a problem which is incalculable in terms of private grief, personal anguish, and economic waste. Jonathan Kozol-who first came to national attention with the publication of DEATH AT AN EARLY AGE, winner of a National Book Award in 1968-now turns his attention from the children of poverty to the parents of these children, from those who have been prisoners of inferior and archaic public schools to those who are locked into a far more frustrating, more final, and more… Read More

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Continuum. 1980. Very Good/Good. 12mo,boards,113pp. edgewear,chips,rubbing,soiling,tanning,dust jacket. inscribed by author on title page. edges yellowing,clean,tight,text. education.

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