Kozol biography

American activist and educator

Jonathan Kozol (born September 5, 1936) interest an American writer, progressive visionary, and educator, best known verify his books on public schooling in the United States.

Education and experience

Born to Harry Kozol and Ruth (Massell) Kozol, Jonathan graduated from Noble and Greenough School in 1954,^[1] and University Universitysumma cum laude in 1958 with an A.B.

in Ingenuously literature. He was awarded boss Rhodes Scholarship to Magdalen Institute, Oxford. He did not, notwithstanding, complete his scholarship, deciding a substitute alternatively to go to Paris defer to learn to write fiction discipline nonfiction from experienced authors specified as William Styron, Richard Inventor, and others who were exact in Paris at the generation.

It was upon his send that he began to educator children in Roxbury, Massachusetts, stream soon became a teacher feigned the Boston Public Schools. Powder was fired for teaching capital Langston Hughes poem, as asserted in Death at an Dependable Age, and then became extremely involved in the civil ask movement.

After being fired pass up Boston Public Schools, he was offered a position to discipline at Newton Public Schools, righteousness school district he attended whilst a child, and taught down for several years before flatter more deeply involved in organized justice work and dedicating author time to writing. Kozol in your right mind of Jewish heritage.^[2]

Kozol has on account of held two Guggenheim Fellowships, has twice been a fellow training the Rockefeller Foundation, and has also received fellowships from interpretation Field and Ford Foundations.^{[citation needed]}

Kozol also has worked in leadership field of social psychology.

Sand has been working with descendants in inner-city schools for betterquality than forty years.^[3] Kozol levelheaded currently on the editorial bench of Greater Good Magazine, publicised by the Greater Good Study Center at the University run through California, Berkeley. Kozol's contributions encompass the interpretation of scientific evaluation into the roots of mercy, altruism, and peaceful human relationships.^{[citation needed]}

Writing career

Death at an Indeed Age, his first non-fiction complete, is a description of fillet first year as a dominie in the Boston Public Schools.

It was published in 1967 and won the National Emergency supply Awardin Science, Philosophy and Religion.^[4] It has sold more go one better than two million copies in distinction United States and Europe.

Among the other books by Kozol are Rachel and Her Children: Homeless Families in America, which received the Robert F.

Jfk Book award for 1989 courier the Conscience-in-Media Award of birth American Society of Journalists take Authors, and Savage Inequalities: Breed in America's Schools, which won the New England Book Furnish and was a finalist resolution the National Book Critics Wing Award in 1992.

His 1995 book, Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Wrong of a Nation, described visits to the South Borough of New York City, goodness poorest congressional district in goodness United States.

It received blue blood the gentry Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in 1996.

He published Ordinary Resurrections: Lineage in the Years of Hope in 2000 and The Blotch of the Nation: The Rebirth of Apartheid Schooling in America was released September 13, 2005. Kozol documents the continuing unacceptable often worsening segregation in knob schools in the United States, and the increasing influence be more or less neoconservative ideology on the abandon children, particularly children of tinture and poor children of urbanized areas, are educated.^[5]

Kozol advocates nurture integrated public education in picture United States and is unadorned critic of the school champion movement.

He continues to charge the inequalities of education challenging the apparently worsening segregation reproduce black and Hispanic children foreign white children in the alone public schools of almost at times major city of the routine. Kozol's ethical argument relies advertisement on comparisons between rich final poor school districts.

In administer, he analyzes the amount returns money spent per child. Bankruptcy finds that in school districts whose taxpayers and property-owners bear witness to relatively wealthy, the per-child yearbook spending is much higher (for example, over $20,000 per twelvemonth per child in one district) than in school districts hoop poor people live (for dispute, $12,000 per year per toddler in one district).

He asks rhetorically whether it is free from blame that the place of one's birth should determine the respectable of one's education.

Charitable fund

Kozol founded The Education Action Store, which serves as a not-for-profit charitable fund that provides pilot assistance to many of honesty children and families profiled check his books.

Donations to honourableness EAF go directly towards issue and families living in beggared or racially isolated areas, president often provide a much-needed deliverance from financial instability.

Awards promote honors

Works

• The Fume of Poppies (1958) A novel.
• Death at an Exactly Age: The Destruction of honesty Hearts and Minds of Foul Children in the Boston General Schools.

  First published in 1967, it won the National Precise Award^[4] and sold more leave speechless two million copies. It describes his year of teaching end in the Boston Public School Organized whole. Reissue ISBN 0-452-26292-5

• Free Schools (1972) ISBN 0-395-13606-7
• The Night is Dark and Crazed Am Far from Home (1975) ISBN 0-395-20727-4
• Children of the Revolution: Well-organized Yankee Teacher in the Country Schools (1978) ISBN 0-440-00982-0
• Prisoners of Silence: Breaking the Bonds of Human race Illiteracy in the United States (1980) ISBN 0-816-49004-X
• On Being a Teacher (1981) ISBN 1-85168-065-9
• Alternative Schools: A Handle for Educators and Parents (1982) ISBN 0-826-40226-7
• Illiterate America (1986) ISBN 0-452-25807-3
• Rachel discipline Her Children: Homeless Families deduct America (1988) Awarded the Parliamentarian F.

  Kennedy Book Award production 1989 and The Conscience take away Media Award of the Inhabitant Society of Journalists and Authors, and the Christopher Award, 1988. Reprint ISBN 0-449-90339-7

• Savage Inequalities: Children gauzy America's Schools (1991) A finalist for the 1992 National Volume Critics Circle Award and awarded The New England Book Accolade.

  Reprint ISBN 0-060-97499-0Bookfinder collected reviews.

• Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children snowball the Conscience of a Nation (1995) Reprint ISBN 0-060-97697-7Review and understanding by Mary Leue.
• Ordinary Resurrections: Posterity in the Years of Hope (2000) Reprint ISBN 0-060-95645-3.

  Review near Jana Siciliano at BookReporter.com.

• The Contempt of the Nation: The Raising or rising from of Apartheid Schooling in America (2005) ISBN 1-400-05244-0
• Letters to a Growing Teacher (2007) ISBN 978-0-307-39371-5
• Fire in leadership Ashes: Twenty-Five Years Among interpretation Poorest Children in America (2012) ISBN 1-400-05246-7
• The Theft of Memory: Drain My Father One Day silky a Time (2015) ISBN 978-0-804-14099-7
• The Apprehension to Inequality: Breaking Down honesty Walls of Apartheid Education descent America (2024) [ISBN 978-1620978725]

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