
Jonathan Kozol
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.
Born 1936-09-05
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Books by Jonathan Kozol
Total count: 27
The fume of poppies.Houghton Mifflin1958-01-01-
The metaphysical bravado of Shakespeare's Hamlet1958-01-01
Death at an early agethe destruction of the hearts and minds of Negro children in the Boston public schools.Houghton Mifflin1967-01-01
Death at an early agethe destruction of the hearts and minds of Negro children in the Boston public schoolsBantam Books1968-01-01-
Free schoolsBantam1972-01-01
The night is dark and I am far from homeHoughton Mifflin1975-01-01
Children of the revolutiona Yankee teacher in the Cuban schoolsDelacorte Press1978-01-01
Prisoners of silencebreaking the bonds of adult illiteracy in the United StatesContinuum1980-01-01-
On being a teacherContinuum1981-01-01
Alternative schoolsa guide for educators and parentsContinuum1982-01-01
Death at an early agethe destruction of the hearts and the minds of Negro children in the Boston public schools1st Plume printing.New American Library1985-01-01-
Illiterate America1st ed.Anchor Press/Doubleday1985-01-01
Illiterate America9. Plume printingPenguin1986-01-01
Rachel and Her Children - Homeless Families in American1st ed editionCrown1987-02-13
Rachel and her childrenhomeless families in America1st ed.Crown Publishers1988-01-01-
Rachel and Her Children (R)Fawcett Books1989-02-01
Rachel And Her Children HomeleRandom House Value Publishing1989-10-17
Savage inequalitieschildren in America's schools1st ed.Crown Pub.1991-01-01
On being a teacherRev. ed.Oneworld1993-01-01-
Rachael & Her ChildrenRandom House Value Publishing1994-06-04
Amazing gracethe lives of children and the conscience of a nation1st ed.Crown1995-01-01
Ordinary resurrectionschildren in the years of hope1st ed.Crown Publishers2000-01-01
The shame of the nationthe restoration of apartheid schooling in America1st ed.Crown Publishers2005-01-01-
Letters to a young teacher1st pbk. ed.Three Rivers Press2007-01-01
Savage inequalitieschildren in America's schools1st Broadway Paperbacks ed.Broadway Paperbacks2012-01-01
Fire in the ashestwenty-five years among the poorest children in AmericaCrown2012-01-01-
Savage inequalities : children in America's schools.HarperPerennial