jonathan kozol
Jonathan Kozol was born in Boston in 1936 into a traditional middle-class Jewish family. [1]
Fortunately, we have a few who are willing to show us the unpleasant truths of our society, and Jonathan Kozol is one such. [...] His main point is that the children of the poor receive a poor education primarily because of inequities in funding between the schools in poor neighborhoods and those in rich neighborhoods. [2]
Kozol contrasts inner-city schools with those in America’s affluent suburbs. [3]
Soon after hearing of this event he began working as a teacher in a freedom school that had been set up in a black church in a low-income, predominantly black area in Roxbury, just south of Boston. [1]
Kozol’s account of his experience teaching in Roxbury before school integration in Boston, which indicts repressive teaching methods and segregational policies, wins the 1968 National Book Award. [3]
After being fired from BPS he was offered a job to teach for Newton Public Schools, the school district that he had attended as a child, and taught there for several years before becoming more deeply involved in social justice work and dedicating more time to writing. [4]
Schools are designed to indoctrinate, and here is PROOF! [5]
Among the other books by Kozol are Rachel and Her Children: Homeless Families in America, which received the Robert F. Kennedy Book award for 1989 and the Conscience-in-Media Award of the American Society of Journalists and Authors, and Savage Inequalities: Children in America’s Schools, which won the New England Book Award and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1992. [4]
She coordinates the Library Intensive Program at Goldfarb Library and serves as a liaison to faculty and students in Sociology, Politics, Women’s Studies, and the Heller Graduate School for Advanced Studies in Social Welfare. [1]
It describes his year of teaching in the Boston Public School System, and the generally deplorable conditions he found there. [...] In Savage Inequalities children are revealed as victims of class and race prejudice; the poor children of today will be the poor adults of tomorrow, because our educational system ensures that they will be unable to compete with the better educated children of the wealthy. [2]
Kozol believes that children from poor families are cheated out of a future by grossly underequipped, understaffed and underfunded schools in U.S. inner cities and less affluent suburbs. [6]
His 1995 book, Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation, described his visits to the South Bronx of New York, the poorest congressional district in the United States. [3]
My daughter started her teaching career yesterday - I want to inspire her with a great book! [5]
Sources:
[1] The My Hero Project - Jonathan Kozol
[2] Urgently Recommended: Books by Jonathan Kozol
[3] Jonathan Kozol: Information from Answers.com
[4] Jonathan Kozol - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
[5] Amazon.com: jonathan kozol
[6] Amazon.com: Savage Inequalities: Children in America’s Schools …