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Jonathan Kozol

4.1/5 ( ratings)

Born: September 04 1936

Jonathan Kozol is a non-fiction writer, educator, and activist best known for his work towards reforming American public schools. Upon graduating from Harvard, he received a Rhodes scholarship. After returning to the United States, Kozol became a teacher in the Boston Public Schools, until he was fired for teaching a Langston Hughes poem. Kozol has held two Guggenheim Fellowships, has twice been a fellow of the Rockefeller Foundation, and has also received fellowships from the Field and Ford Foundations. Most recently, Kozol has founded and is running a non-profit called Education Action. The group is dedicated to grassroots organizing of teachers across the country who wish to push back against NCLB and the most recent Supreme Court decision on desegregation, and to help create a single, excellent, unified system of American public schools.

Jonathan Kozol

4.1/5 ( ratings)

Born: September 04 1936

Jonathan Kozol is a non-fiction writer, educator, and activist best known for his work towards reforming American public schools. Upon graduating from Harvard, he received a Rhodes scholarship. After returning to the United States, Kozol became a teacher in the Boston Public Schools, until he was fired for teaching a Langston Hughes poem. Kozol has held two Guggenheim Fellowships, has twice been a fellow of the Rockefeller Foundation, and has also received fellowships from the Field and Ford Foundations. Most recently, Kozol has founded and is running a non-profit called Education Action. The group is dedicated to grassroots organizing of teachers across the country who wish to push back against NCLB and the most recent Supreme Court decision on desegregation, and to help create a single, excellent, unified system of American public schools.

Books from Jonathan Kozol

Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools

4.2/5 ( ratings)

Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation

4.2/5 ( ratings)

The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America

4.1/5 ( ratings)

Letters to a Young Teacher

3.7/5 ( ratings)

Fire in the Ashes: Twenty-Five Years Among the Poorest Children in America

Rachel and Her Children: Homeless Families in America

4.2/5 ( ratings)

Ordinary Resurrections

4.2/5 ( ratings)

The Theft of Memory: Losing My father, One Day at a Time

3.4/5 ( ratings)

The Uses of Haiti

4.2/5 ( ratings)

On Being a Teacher

3.8/5 ( ratings)

Will Standards Save Public Education?

3.3/5 ( ratings)

The night is dark and I am far from home

4.8/5 ( ratings)

Plough Quarterly No. 3: Childhood

3.4/5 ( ratings)

The Night is Dark and I Am Far from Home: A Political Indictment of the US Public Schools

4.3/5 ( ratings)

The Night is Dark and I Am Far from Home

The Night is Dark and I Am Far from Home: A Political Indictment of the US Public Schools

The Norton Mix Sociology Saddleback College

To Teach: The Journey, in Comics

The New York Times Magazine, September 4, 2005

An End to Inequality: Breaking Down the Walls of Apartheid Education in America