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 →
Even if you never do anything about this, you've benefited from an unjust system. You're already the winner in a game that was rigged to your... →
I encourage teachers to speak in their own voices. Don't use the gibberish of the standards writers.
But for the children of the poorest people we're stripping the curriculum, removing the arts and music, and drilling the children into useful... →
Well, teachers have been profoundly demoralized in recent years and are often treated with contempt by politicians. There's a great deal of... →
An awful lot of people come to college with this strange idea that there's no longer segregation in America's schools, that our schools are... →
The 'niche' effect of charter schools guarantees a swift and vicious deepening of class and racial separation.
You need massive recruitment to tell the poorest of the poor what is possible.
At that time, I had recently finished a book called Amazing Grace, which many people tell me is a very painful book to read. Well, if it was painful... →
I believe we need a national amendment which will guarantee every child in America the promise of not just an equal education but a high-quality... →
The answers I remember longest are the ones that answer questions that I didn't think of asking.
Instead of seeing these children for the blessings that they are, we are measuring them only by the standard of whether they will be future deficits... →
Children are not simply commodities to be herded into line and trained for the jobs that white people who live in segregated neighborhoods have... →
I once made a check of all books in my fourth-grade classroom. Of the slightly more than six hundred books, almost one quarter had been published... →
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.