This is the book for readers of Jonathan Kozol's previous works on education, including "The Shame of the Nation" and "On Being a Teacher"; for readers of memoirs like Frank McCourt's "Teacher Man"; for new teachers looking for guidance and inspiration; and for educators, administrators, and childre[...]

Jonathan Kozol's books have become touchstones of the American conscience. In "Ordinary Resurrections, " he spends four years in the South Bronx with children who have become his friends at a badly underfunded but enlightened public school. A fascinating narrative of daily urban life, "Ordinary Resu[...]

A hard-hitting analysis of the current status of urban education by the author of Savage Inequalities argues that conditions have worsened in terms of schooling for inner-city children, looking at how liberal education is being replaced by high-stakes testing procedures, culturally barren and roboti[...]

Jonathan Kozol, National Book Award-winning author and one of America's foremost writers on social issues, offers a passionate and provocative critique on the role of the teacher in America's public school system. Writing as a teacher, Kozol advocates an approach to education that is infused with et[...]