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The article focuses on the evolution of Critical Legal Theory (CLT) into a type of revolutionary project. The implication of CRT to children of color as perpetual victims, their learning problems of interest only as markers of white supremacist conspiracy is mentioned. The involvement of CRT in racial counter-story, which is an important component to educational research employing a critical race framework is emphasized.

The article discusses the career of U.S. writer and activist Jonathan Kozol. Topics covered include how Kozol's books criticizing racist and oppressive U.S. education, Kozol's first work "Death at an Early Age: The Destruction of the Hearts and Minds of Negro Children in Boston's Public Schools," Kozol's radical slighting of fact and nuance, and the lives of children in poverty.