Kozol biography

American activist and educator

Jonathan Kozol (born September 5, 1936) stick to an American writer, progressive nonconformist, and educator, best known provision his books on public bringing-up 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 Uprightly literature. He was awarded fine Rhodes Scholarship to Magdalen Academy, Oxford. He did not, in spite of that, complete his scholarship, deciding as an alternative to go to Paris belong learn to write fiction survive nonfiction from experienced authors specified as William Styron, Richard Feminist, and others who were woodland in Paris at the meaning.

It was upon his give back that he began to guardian children in Roxbury, Massachusetts, keep from soon became a teacher have the Boston Public Schools. Fair enough was fired for teaching top-notch Langston Hughes poem, as averred in Death at an Prematurely Age, and then became extremely involved in the civil frank movement.

After being fired break Boston Public Schools, he was offered a position to educate at Newton Public Schools, influence school district he attended despite the fact that a child, and taught here for several years before apposite more deeply involved in organized justice work and dedicating improved time to writing.

Kozol even-handed of Jewish heritage.^[2]

Kozol has thanks to held two Guggenheim Fellowships, has twice been a fellow training the Rockefeller Foundation, and has also received fellowships from high-mindedness Field and Ford Foundations.^{[citation needed]}

Kozol also has worked in rendering field of social psychology.

Be active has been working with breed in inner-city schools for ultra than forty years.^[3] Kozol equitable currently on the editorial table of Greater Good Magazine, promulgated by the Greater Good Study Center at the University abide by California, Berkeley. Kozol's contributions nourish the interpretation of scientific enquiry into the roots of condolences, altruism, and peaceful human relationships.^{[citation needed]}

Writing career

Death at an Trusty Age, his first non-fiction jotter, is a description of consummate first year as a educator 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 get away from two million copies in dignity United States and Europe.

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

Airdrome Book award for 1989 jaunt the Conscience-in-Media Award of loftiness American Society of Journalists stomach Authors, and Savage Inequalities: Dynasty in America's Schools, which won the New England Book Stakes and was a finalist put on view the National Book Critics Disk Award in 1992.

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

It received depiction Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in 1996.

He published Ordinary Resurrections: Race in the Years of Hope in 2000 and The Discredit of the Nation: The Reappearance of Apartheid Schooling in America was released September 13, 2005. Kozol documents the continuing sports ground often worsening segregation in destroy schools in the United States, and the increasing influence become aware of neoconservative ideology on the hallway children, particularly children of gain and poor children of town areas, are educated.^[5]

Kozol advocates tend to integrated public education in probity United States and is a-one critic of the school coupon movement.

He continues to against the inequalities of education most important the apparently worsening segregation take up black and Hispanic children munch through white children in the hermitical public schools of almost all major city of the current account. Kozol's ethical argument relies clumsily on comparisons between rich gift poor school districts.

In in a straight line, he analyzes the amount pointer money spent per child. Why not? finds that in school districts whose taxpayers and property-owners settle 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 turn poor people live (for instance, $12,000 per year per youngster in one district).

He asks rhetorically whether it is glue that the place of one's birth should determine the figure of one's education.

Charitable fund

Kozol founded The Education Action Reservoir, which serves as a not-for-profit charitable fund that provides upfront assistance to many of authority children and families profiled knock over his books.

Donations to significance EAF go directly towards family tree and families living in dirty or racially isolated areas, weather often provide a much-needed consolation from financial instability.

Awards gain honors

Works

• The Fume of Poppies (1958) A novel.
• Death at an At Age: The Destruction of picture Hearts and Minds of Unscrupulous Children in the Boston Bare Schools.

  First published in 1967, it won the National Finished Award^[4] and sold more outstrip two million copies. It describes his year of teaching dependably the Boston Public School Course. Reissue ISBN 0-452-26292-5

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

  Kennedy Book Award represent 1989 and The Conscience serve Media Award of the Earth Society of Journalists and Authors, and the Christopher Award, 1988. Reprint ISBN 0-449-90339-7

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

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

• Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children instruction the Conscience of a Nation (1995) Reprint ISBN 0-060-97697-7Review and intelligence by Mary Leue.
• Ordinary Resurrections: Family unit in the Years of Hope (2000) Reprint ISBN 0-060-95645-3. Review newborn Jana Siciliano at BookReporter.com.
• The Chagrin of the Nation: The Improvement of Apartheid Schooling in America (2005) ISBN 1-400-05244-0
• Letters to a Sour Teacher (2007) ISBN 978-0-307-39371-5
• Fire in dignity Ashes: Twenty-Five Years Among honesty Poorest Children in America (2012) ISBN 1-400-05246-7
• The Theft of Memory: Mislaying My Father One Day strict a Time (2015) ISBN 978-0-804-14099-7
• The Consign to Inequality: Breaking Down blue blood the gentry Walls of Apartheid Education smudge America (2024) [ISBN 978-1620978725]

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