Jonathan Kozol

Jonathan Kozol is an author.

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Jonathan Kozol

Kozol is an educator, writer and civil rights worker. In 1965 he moved to mostly-black Roxbury to teach 4th grade, where he was fired for reading Langston ...

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Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools (Jonathan Kozol)

National Book Award-winning author Jonathan Kozol presents his shocking account of the American educational system in this stunning New York Times bestseller, ...

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Letters to a Young Teacher (Jonathan Kozol)

“Kozol’s love for his students is as joyful and genuine as his critiques of the system are severe. He doesn’t pull punches.” — ...

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Amazing Grace: Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation, The (Jonathan Kozol)

The children in this book defy the stereotypes of urban youth too frequently presented by the media. Tender, generous and often religiously devout, they ...

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The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America (Jonathan Kozol)

Over the last 15 years, the state of inner-city public schools has been in a steep and continuing decline. Since the federal courts began dismantling the ...

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The Impossible Will Take a Little While: A Citizen's Guide to Hope in a Time of Fear (Paul Loeb)

What keeps us going when times get tough? How do we act to create a more humane world, no matter how hard it seems? How do we offer models of involvement ...

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Common Fire: Leading Lives of Commitment in a Complex World (Laurent A. Parks Daloz)

A landmark study that reveals how we become committed to the common good and sustain such commitments in a changing world. "A perceptive, groundbreaking ...

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Reaching Up for Manhood: Transforming the Lives of Boys in America (Geoffrey Canada)

The author of Fist Stick Knife Gun brings powerful new insight to the lives of boys in America today: "More and more I have become concerned with ...

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Spectacular Things Happen Along the Way: Lessons from an Urban Classroom (Brian D. Schultz)

''Spectacular Things Happen Along the Way renewed my belief that it is possible to write authentic narratives about urban schools.... I plan to make this ...

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