Jonathan Kozol (born September 5, 1936) is a American writer, educator, and activist. best known for his books on public education in the United States. Read full biography of Jonathan Kozol →
I emphasize teachers because they are largely left out of the debate. None of the bombastic reports that come from Washington and think tanks telling... →
Separate and unequal didn't work 100 years ago. It will not work today.
The trouble is not that schools don't work; they do. They're excellent machines for achieving historically accepted purposes. In suburban... →
Wonderful teachers should never let themselves be drill sergeants for the state.
The ones I pity are the ones who never stick out their neck for something they believe, never know the taste of moral struggle, and never have the... →
No Child Left Behind's fourth-grade gains aren't learning gains, they're testing gains. That's why they don't last. The law is a... →
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... →
So long as the most vulnerable people in our population are consigned to places that the rest of us will always shun and flee and view with fear, I... →
People rarely speak of children; you hear of 'cohort groups' and 'standard variations,' but you don't hear much of boys who miss... →
Apartheid education, rarely mentioned in the press or openly confronted even among once-progressive educators, is alive and well and rapidly... →
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... →
The cause of homelessness is lack of housing.
We know that segregation is evil. We know that the sickest children should not go to the worst hospitals. No, I refuse to pretend the problem is... →
Jonathan Kozol (born September 5, 1936) is a American writer, educator, and activist. best known for his books on public education in the United States.