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.

Education Reform December 1, 2005

Overcoming Apartheid

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.

Jonathan Kozol
Cities May 23, 2002

Malign Neglect

Children in New York City's public schools are being shortchanged--again.

Jonathan Kozol
Education May 3, 2000

The Details of Life

This article is adapted from Ordinary Resurrections: Children in the Years of Hope (Crown).

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Jonathan Kozol

Education Reform December 1, 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.

Cities May 23, 2002

Children in New York City's public schools are being shortchanged--again.

Education May 3, 2000

This article is adapted from Ordinary Resurrections: Children in the Years of Hope (Crown).