Jonathan Kozol, Author . Crown $19.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-307-39371-5
Forty years ago, Death at an Early Age
catapulted Kozol into national prominence as a compassionate yet clearheaded observer of the rotten state of American education. His latest book reviews many of the basic issues he has spent his life exploring
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Jonathan Kozol, Author Crown Publishing Group $20 (262p) ISBN 978-0-517-58221-3
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. The schools he visited between 1988 and 1990--in burnt-out...
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Jonathan Kozol, Author Crown Publishing Group $23 (304p) ISBN 978-0-517-79999-4
Kozol (Savage Inequalities) began visiting New York's South Bronx in 1993, focusing on Mott Haven, a poor neighborhood that is two thirds Hispanic, one third black. This disquieting report graphically portrays a world where babies are born to drug-us
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Jonathan Kozol, Author Crown Publishing Group (NY) $25 (416p) ISBN 978-1-4000-5244-8
Public school resegregation is a ""national horror hidden in plain view,"" writes former educator turned public education activist Kozol (Savage Inequalities, Amazing Grace). Kozol visited 60 schools in 11 states over a five-year period and finds,...
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Jonathan Kozol, Author Ballantine Books $13.95 (261p) ISBN 978-0-449-90339-1
To write this ``jolting firsthand report,'' Kozol spent months among the homeless, whose depressing stories, interwoven with his commentaries, tell of infant deaths, malnutrition, hunger, loss of dignity and desperation. ``This powerful volume,'' PW
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Jonathan Kozol. Crown, $27 (368p) ISBN 978-1-4000-5246-2
National Book Award–winner Kozol (The Shame of the Nation) again traces the workings of “savage inequalities”—this time on a generational timescale—in this engrossing chronicle of lives blighted and redeemed. He follows the fortunes of people he met
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Jonathan Kozol. Crown, $26 (320p) ISBN 978-0-8041-4097-3
Kozol (Savage Inequalities), a celebrated crusader for a balanced public school education, shifts his gaze to old age and the heartbreaking but strangely consoling decline of his parents in this luminous memoir. Kozol recounts the last years of his...
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Jonathan Kozol, Author, David Drummond, Read by Tantor Media $29.99 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4001-0546-5
Kozol provides another tract on the politics of education, slightly disguised as an ongoing (albeit one-way) dialogue with a young teacher named Francesca from Boston. Each letter provides long, extensive discussions about public education as well...
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Jonathan Kozol, Author, Jonathan Kozol, Author Crown Publishers $25 (400p) ISBN 978-0-517-70000-6
A persistent voice of conscience, Kozol poses the question: do we want our schools to remain segregated and unequal? The National Book Award-winning education activist revisits Mott Haven, a poverty-stricken section of the South Bronx that was the...
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Jonathan Kozol. New Press, $25.99 (224p) ISBN 978-1-620-97872-6
In this vigorous polemic, National Book Award winner Kozol (Death at an Early Age) condemns the subjugation of Black and Latino elementary school children to an education that stifles their imagination, and he forcefully calls for busing and...
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