Jonathan Kozol

Jonathan Kozol is the National Book Award-winning author of Death at an Early Age, Savage Inequalities and other books on children in inner-city schools. He taught fifth grade for two years in Boston's suburban interdistrict program, the longest-lasting voluntary integration effort in the nation. Kozol is the winner of the 2005 Puffin/Nation Prize for Creative Citizenship.

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  • Overcoming Apartheid

    November 30, 2005

    Apartheid education is alive in America and rapidly increasing in hyper-segregated inner-city schools. And though it's now fashionable for policy-makers to declare integration a failure, effective programs across the country still survive--and deserve to thrive.

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