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 →
It is a commonplace by now to say that the urban school systems of America contain a higher percentage of Negro children each year.
'Death at an Early Age' was about racial segregation in Boston. 'Illiterate America' was about grownups who can't read.... →
Schooling should not be left to the whim or wealth of village elders. I believe that we should fund all schools in the U.S. with our national... →
Discrimination is alive and soaring.
I feel, in the end, as if everything I've done has been a failure.
In many of the high schools in the South Bronx, more children will end up in prison than will go to college.
It is our nation which is blind, and needs our prayers.
It's sad that some people who have one exciting moment spend the rest of their lives rehashing it.
My goal is to connect the young teachers to the old, to reignite their sense of struggle.
Competitive skills are desperately needed by poor children in America, and realistic recognition of the economic roles that they may someday have an... →
I tell young teachers who are determined to dissent from some of the Draconian aspects of the current orthodoxy that the best form of protection is... →
So long as these kinds of inequalities persist, all of us who are given expensive educations have to live with the knowledge that our victories are... →
What I tell these young people is, the world is not as dangerous as the older generation would like you to believe. Anyone I know who has ever taken... →
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.