A searing, eye-opening expose of the inequality built into America's public education system, written by the National Book Award-winning author of Death at an Early Age and Rachel and Her Children. Kozol blames the disparity among public school systems on the local funding structure that ensures a direct connection between affluence of a community ...
What is happening to our schools and our kids? In this expose on public education, Jonathan Kozol, with equal parts outrage and humanism, writes that in America, there are two systems of education that are separate and unequal. His choice of the word "apartheid" in his subtitle is not merely rhetorical; students in many schools may never encounter ...
This exhilarating new work from award-winning author Kozol takes the form of warm and friendly letters to a young classroom teacher, offering advice, encouragement, remembrances, and a lively indignation at the bureaucratic absurdities most teachers face.
"Important and compelling . . .cking facts and figures with the affecting, even tragic stories and voices of homeless families . . . read this book".--USA Today.
Based on his experiences teaching in the '60s, Jonathan Kozol's classic text on Boston's public schools heralded a career spent reporting on the lives of the disenfranchised. In Roxbury he found racism and neglect, and his expose won the the 1968 National Book Award.
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 ethical values: fairness, truth, and integrity, and ...
"It is only when we forget our learning that we begin to know", Thoreau wrote. Ideas about education permeate Thoreau's writing. "Uncommon Learning" brings those ideas together in a single volume for the first time. Part of "The Spirit of Thoreau Series". 20-30 drawings by Thoreau.
Kozol, author of Rachel and Her Children: Homeless Families in America, offers an absorbing analysis of the ethical crisis confronting our culture. In this fourth edition, a new introduction and epilogue place the book in the context of contemporary issues and attitudes.
""The Uses of Haiti "tells the truth about uncomfortable matters-uncomfortable, that is, for the structures of power and the doctrinal framework that protects them from critical scrutiny. It tells the truth about what has been happening in Haiti, and the U.S. role in its bitter fate."-Noam Chomsky "A classic"-Jonathan Kozol, author, "Death at an ...
From the author of Rachel and Her Children and the National Book Award-winning Death at an Early Age comes a controversial, searing expose of the inequalities in the American public school systems.
Based on his experiences teaching in the '60s, Jonathan Kozol's classic text on Boston's public schools heralded a career spent reporting on the lives of the disenfranchised. In Roxbury he found racism and neglect, and his expose won the the 1968 National Book Award.
The author, a journalist with 25 years experience as an education reporter, presents his assessment of schools in the United States. Working from the contention that most schools in the United States are merely "good enough" (that is "schools that everyone wants to believe are okay--even, though, deep down, they know better"), the author advises ...
Media critic Norman Solomon offers a collection of columns humorously detailing the most recent excesses and failures of America's self-censoring mainstream media.
Children's Express, a Washington-based news organization run by teenage editors and reporters, turns its Peabody and Emmy Award-winning journalistic skills to the story of violence and American children. 12 photos.
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