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 Hughes. In 1995 he wrote "Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation" about the South Bronx. He has called for the expansion of Bush's faith-based initiatives. After visitng Cuba in the 1970s, Kozol wrote that schools should be modeled on the Nazi-era German public school system to produce "good Germans, or good citizens, as we in the United States would say."
