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Among the other books by Kozol are Rachel and Her Children: Homeless Families in America, which received the Robert F. Kennedy Book award for 1989 and the Conscience-in-Media Award of the American Society of Journalists and Authors, and Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools, which won the New England Book Award and was a finalist ...
Death at an Early Age: The Destruction of the Hearts and Minds of Negro Children in the Boston Public Schools (reissue ISBN 0-452-26292-5) is a book written by the American schoolteacher Jonathan Kozol and published in Boston by Houghton Mifflin in 1967. It won the U.S. National Book Award in the Science, Philosophy and Religion category. [1]
Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools is a book written by Jonathan Kozol in 1991 that discusses the disparities in education between schools of different classes and races. [1] It is based on his observations of various classrooms in the public school systems of East St. Louis , Chicago , New York City , Camden , Cincinnati , and ...
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The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America is a 2005 book by educator and author Jonathan Kozol. It describes how, in the United States, black and Hispanic students tend to be concentrated in schools where they make up almost the entire student body. [1]
Jonathan Kozol was honored with the 1988 award, for work done on his book Rachel and Her Children: Homeless Families in America. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] In order to research the plight of homeless people in New York City , Kozol spent the majority of a winter season at the Martinique Hotel in Manhattan , where he grew close with the residents of the ...
A History of the Free School Movement (PDF) (B.A. thesis). Brown University; Kozol, Jonathan (1972). Free Schools. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. ISBN 978-0-395-13606-5. OCLC 868666475. Shotton, John (1993). No Master High or Low: Libertarian Education and Schooling in Britain 1890-1990. Bristol: Libertarian Education.
After reading Jonathan Kozol's book Savage Inequalities Reid was inspired to bring positive change through education. After twelve years in the computer industry Reid returned to his alma mater, working on education programs for underserved communities in the United States. [2]