Jonathan Kozol
Jonathan Kozol
Jonathan Kozolis an American writer, educator, and activist. best known for his books on public education in the United States...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth5 September 1936
CountryUnited States of America
vengeance segregation public-education
Racial segregation has come back to public education with a vengeance.
children school years
It is a commonplace by now to say that the urban school systems of America contain a higher percentage of Negro children each year.
thinking height energy
I think a moment of critical energy has suddenly emerged. But moments like this come and go unless we seize them at their height.
jobs children white
Children are not simply commodities to be herded into line and trained for the jobs that white people who live in segregated neighborhoods have available.
weather doe apartheid
Apartheid does not happen spontaneously, like bad weather conditions.
needs poor massive
You need massive recruitment to tell the poorest of the poor what is possible.
thinking asking answers
The answers I remember longest are the ones that answer questions that I didn't think of asking.
children struggle cat
People rarely speak of children; you hear of 'cohort groups' and 'standard variations,' but you don't hear much of boys who miss their cats or 6-year-olds who have to struggle with potato balls.
book school boston
I wrote the first book, and I thought people would say: 'Separate and unequal schools in the City of Boston? I didn't know that. Let's go out and fix it.'
teaching school years
I'd love to go back and teach primary school. I used to teach fourth grade and fifth grade. I'd love to spend several years teaching kindergarten or maybe third grade.
children opportunity skills
Competitive skills are desperately needed by poor children in America, and realistic recognition of the economic roles that they may someday have an opportunity to fill is obviously important, too. But there is more to life, and there ought to be much more to childhood, than readiness for economic functions.
teaching school people
There has been so much recent talk of progress in the areas of curriculum innovation and textbook revision that few people outside the field of teaching understand how bad most of our elementary school materials still are.
children order years
The first ten, twelve or fifteen years of life are excavated of inherent moral worth in order to accommodate a regimen of basic training for the adult years that many of the poorest children may not even live to know.
teacher new-york children
The contrasts between what is spent today to educate a child in the poorest New York City neighborhoods, where teacher salaries are often even lower than the city averages, and spending levels in the wealthiest suburban areas are daunting challenges to any hope New Yorkers might retain that even semblances of fairness still prevail.