Forty years ago, Death at an Early Age catapulted Kozol into national prominence as a compassionate yet clearheaded observer of the rotten state of American education. His latest book reviews many of ...

The gentle tone of Jonathan Kozol's new book, "Letters to a Young Teacher," evokes "Mister Rogers" more than Rainer Maria Rilke, though the book takes its title and epistolary format from the German ...

With his latest, and last, book, the 87-year-old writer refuses false optimism. By Dana Goldstein New books by George Hodgman, Bob Morris and Jonathan Kozol. By Noelle Howey Scene on New York City ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Jonathan Kozol, the educator and social activist whose iconic books on urban schools have shaped the sensibilities of generations of teachers, will participate in two events this ...

THE SHAME OF THE NATION: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America. By Jonathan Kozol. Crown, 388 pp. $25. The images of poor black people left behind in the wake of the New Orleans floods, ...

We are the dust beneath your feet. We are the flowers that never bloom. – Beggars in Bombay 1 Although bookshelves groan under the weight of tracts about U.S. racism, no one’s writings on the topic ...

Jonathan Kozol may very well be one of the most influential contemporary writers on social justice, urban education and educational reform. Author of "Amazing Grace," "Death at an Early Age," "The ...

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Jonathan Kozol began his career as a fourth-grade teacher in 1964 at a segregated inner-city Boston school. The Harvard College graduate had 35 students but no classroom. And the school was so crowded ...