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 →
Congress has an opportunity to take advantage of the opening created by Justice Kennedy later this year when it reauthorizes the federal No Child... →
Our political establishment refuses to use the word 'segregated.' They call the schools diverse, which means half black, half Hispanic, and... →
Childhood ought to have at least a few entitlements that aren't entangled with utilitarian considerations. One of them should be the right to a... →
Governor Romney has said nothing about preschool. I think that giving the poorest kids in America wonderful preschool, and three years of it... →
I have always felt my role was to do anything I could to enable the powerless to speak. I want America to hear these voices because they are... →
I think a lot of people don't have any idea of how deeply segregated our schools have become all over again. Most textbooks are not honest in... →
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... →
In the book, I write about children in first grade who were taught to read by reading want ads. They learned to write by writing job applications.... →
President Obama's first term in office has been better for intentions than for actual changes in planning and policy. I do believe, and he has... →
The fact that a crime might have been committed with impunity in the past may make it seem more familiar and less gruesome, but surely does not give... →
The inequalities are greater now than in '92. Some states have equalized per-pupil spending but they set the 'equal level' very low, so... →
'Amazing Grace' is not a book of interviews or onetime snapshots. It's a memoir of a journey that took me into a place I had never been... →
A culture in which guilt is automatically assumed to be neurotic and unhealthy has devised a remarkably clever way of protecting its self-interest.
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.