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[...]
In this National Book Award-winning book, Kozol unflinchingly exposes the disturbing "destruction of hearts and minds in the Boston public school." A new Epilogue assesses the last 20 years of the educational system.[...]
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[...]
For two years, beginning in 1988, Jonathan Kozol visited schools in neighborhoods across the country, from Illinois to Washington D.C., and from New York to San Antonio.He spoke with teachers, principals, superintendents, and, most important, children. What he found was devastating. Not only were sc[...]
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[...]
In this powerful and culminating work about a group of inner-city children he has known for many years, Jonathan Kozol returns to the scene of his prize-winning books "Rachel and Her Children" and "Amazing Grace," and to the children he has vividly portrayed, to share with us their fascinating journ[...]
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[...]