In the Press

Jonathan Kozol finds an unusual forum for his views on school-funding inequities in the April issue of Playboy. The author of Savage Inequalities is April's "Playboy Interview.''

Criticizing the 1980's deemphasis on "questions of equality,'' he says that President Reagan "has surgically removed the soul of conscience out of our children and replaced it with crass self-interest.''

Were he the U.S. Secretary of Education, Mr. Kozol says, he would "convince the nation to get rid of property-tax funding for schools'' and "ask Congress to raise the federal expenditure [on education] from its present 5...