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1	Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools more books like this by Jonathan Kozol add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.39! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America more books like this by Jonathan Kozol add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Letters to a Young Teacher more books like this by Jonathan Kozol add to wishlist 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. see all copies from $2.11! new only from $3.00! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation more books like this by Jonathan Kozol add to wishlist A chilling report from Kozol on the status of the "poorest of the poor" children, focusing on New York City's South Bronx. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.78! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	Rachel and Her Children: Homeless Families in America more books like this by Jonathan Kozol add to wishlist "Important and compelling . . .cking facts and figures with the affecting, even tragic stories and voices of homeless families . . . read this book".--USA Today. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.36! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	Death at an Early Age more books like this by Jonathan Kozol add to wishlist 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. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	Ordinary Resurrections: Children in the Years of Hope more books like this by Jonathan Kozol add to wishlist This book tells stories about the lives of several inner-city school children growing up in the South Bronx. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	On Being a Teacher more books like this by Jonathan Kozol add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.00! \| SVS
9	Illiterate America more books like this by Jonathan Kozol add to wishlist Jonathan Kozol offers remedies for widespread illiteracy in America. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $12.44! \| signed copies \| first editions
10	Uncommon Learning: Thoreau on Education more books like this by Henry David Thoreau, Martin Bickman (Editor), Jonathan Kozol (Foreword by) add to wishlist "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. see all copies from $2.26! new only from $3.50! \| SVS
11	Free schools. more books like this by Jonathan Kozol add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions \| SVS
12	The Night is Dark and I Am Far from Home more books like this by Jonathan Kozol add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $99.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
13	The Night is Dark and I Am Far from Home: A Political Indictment of the U.S. Schools, 4th Ed. more books like this by Jonathan Kozol, Anne Bernays (Photographer) add to wishlist 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. see all copies from $1.99! first editions
14	Savage Inequalities more books like this by Jonathan Kozol, Mark Winston (Read by) add to wishlist 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. see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions
15	Death at an Early Age: The Destruction of the Hearts and Minds of Negro Children in the Boston Public Schools more books like this by Jonathan Kozol add to wishlist 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. see all copies from $1.99! first editions \| SVS
16	Rachel & Her Children Homels F more books like this by Jonathan Kozol add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	The Uses of Haiti, Updated Edition more books like this by Paul Farmer (Foreword by), Jonathan Kozol (Foreword by), Professor Noam Chomsky (Introduction by) add to wishlist ""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 ... see all copies from $25.00!
18 view cover	Choosing Excellence: Good Enough Schools Are Not Good Enough more books like this by John Merrow, Jonathan Kozol (Foreword by) add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Amazing Grace more books like this by Jonathan Kozol, Dick Hill (Read by) add to wishlist A chilling report from Kozol on the status of the "poorest of the poor" children, focusing on New York City's South Bronx. see all copies from $7.00! first editions
20 view cover	The Habits of Highly Deceptive Media: Decoding Spin and Lies in Mainstream News more books like this by Norman Solomon, Jonathan Kozol (Introduction by) add to wishlist Media critic Norman Solomon offers a collection of columns humorously detailing the most recent excesses and failures of America's self-censoring mainstream media. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.79! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Voices from the Future: Our Children Tell Us about Violence in America more books like this by Childrens Express, Susan Goodwillie (Editor), Jonathan Kozol (Introduction by) add to wishlist 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. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Outside the Dream: Child Poverty in America more books like this by Stephen Shames, Jonathan Kozol (Introduction by) add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.94! \| signed copies
23	Rachel and Her Children (R) more books like this by Jonathan Kozol add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions
24	Prisoners of Silence: Breaking the Bonds of Adult Illiteracy in the United States more books like this by Jonathan Kozol add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $40.00! \| signed copies \| first editions
25	Children of the Revolution: A Yankee Teacher in the Cuban Schools more books like this by Jonathan Kozol add to wishlist see all copies from $10.12! new only from $199.57! \| first editions

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