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	Savage Inconsistencies: Kozol's Intellectual Confusion: A review of Jonathan Kozol’s
		Interestingly, in Kozol’s Afterword to Illiterate America, he offered useful ruminations on various issues in public education, such as his suggestion that “schools of education ought to be progressively drawn back, if not absorbed entirely, into schools of liberal arts,” with “scarcely more than one-semester periods of on-site preparation in the classroom” (p.
		That Kozol does none of this suggests that his argument for massive cross-district busing for purposes of integration is little more than an attempt to re-establish moral high ground when there is nothing to salvage from the failed ideas of educational justice-seekers.
		Kozol is still back in that Boston classroom in 1964, energized by the Civil Rights movement and outraged by the inadequacies of his students’ education.
	www.ednews.org /articles/537/1/Savage-Inconsistencies-Kozols-Intellectual-Confusion-A-review-of-Jonathan-Kozols/Page1.html (2949 words)

	Jonathan Kozol - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jonathan Kozol (born 1936 in Boston, Massachusetts) is a non-fiction writer, educator, and activist, best known for his books on public education in the United States.
		Kozol documents the continuing and often worsening segregation in public schools in the United States, and the increasing influence of neoconservative ideology on the way children, particularly children of color and poor children, are educated.
		Kozol graduated from Harvard University Summa Cum Laude (1958) with a degree in English Literature and was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to Magdalen College, Oxford.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jonathan_Kozol (1183 words)

	Response to Jonathan Kozol's Savage Inequalities by Amber Goslee
		Response to Jonathan Kozol's Savage Inequalities by Amber Goslee
		Between 1988 and 1990, Kozol visited schools in approximately 30 neighborhoods and found that there was a wide disparity in the conditions between the schools in the poorest inner-city communities and schools in the wealthier suburban communities.
		Kozol examines how the unequal funding of schools relates to social class divisions, institutional and environmental racism, isolation and alienation of students and staff within poor schools, the physical decay of buildings, and the health conditions of students.
	www.pipeline.com /~rgibson/rouge_forum/newspaper/fall1999/savage.htm (1714 words)

	Jonathan Kozol (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Jonathan Kozol, unlike many that I have read for this project, takes on the whole American system and challenges it to live up to its ideals of full participatory democracy.
		Kozol replies to this mission statement, "However we do it, I believe it is our job to be quite clear to students that schools exist precisely in order to destroy such loyalty" (p.
		Kozol's work convinces me that by being a citizen of the city where I teach, in solidarity with my students, I can equip the next generation of citizens to improve all of our situation.
	www.hamline.edu /~mboucher/capstoneproject1998/kozol.html (825 words)

	WWU News Release
		Kozol found that in their desperation to conform with the requirements of high-stakes testing, many inner-city schools have cancelled recess, instituted silent lunches and have compelled their teachers to use stick-and-carrot teaching methods that allow no room for creativity or independent thinking.
		Kozol’s talk is sponsored by Western’s Center for Educational Pluralism at Woodring College of Education; the Teaching-Learning Academy, and the university’s American Democracy Project, which promotes student involvement in public life.
		Kozol was chosen by the Center for Educational Pluralism as its second annual distinguished speaker.
	west.wwu.edu /ucomm_news/articles/933.asp (512 words)

	Global Gathering Speakers: Jonathan Kozol (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		JONATHAN KOZOL, a long-time social activist, is author of seven award-winning books which focus on the plight of disadvantaged children of our nation.
		Jonathan Kozol believes that the questions we should be asking about justice and injustice in America are not chiefly programmatic, technical or scientific-- they are theological.
		A native of Boston, Massachusetts, Jonathan Kozol graduated from Harvard University summa cum laude (1958) and was a Rhodes scholar to Magdalen College, Oxford.
	gbgm-umc.org /globalgathering/jkozol.html (489 words)

	2000 WEAC Convention
		Kozol said he is disturbed by the tone of voice of those advocates, who tend to regard schools as businesses and children as products.
		Kozol outlined the severe inequities faced by many urban school districts, including those in South Bronx, the focus of his latest book, "Ordinary Resurrections." Schools there, he said, spend an average of $8,000 per pupil, compared to $12,000 in middle-class suburbs and $18,000 in wealthy suburbs.
		Kozol told touching stories about the dedication of teachers in the South Bronx and about the "generosity in spirit" of the children there.
	www.weac.org /News/2000-01/oct00/kozol.htm (983 words)

	New York State Writers Institute - Jonathan Kozol
		Kozol writes, "I believe that they are these good children sent to us by God and not yet soiled by the knowledge that their nation does not love them." Despite the severe political conservatism of the 1990s, Amazing Grace became a national bestseller within three weeks of publication.
		Born in Boston, Jonathan Kozol graduated from Harvard University Summa Cum Laude (1958) and was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to Magdalen College, Oxford.
		And that, according to Jonathan Kozol, is the crux of the matter.
	www.albany.edu /writers-inst/kozol.html (1271 words)

	City Journal Winter 2000 \| America’s Most Influential—and Wrongest—School Reformer by Sol Stern
		Kozol's mistaken but hugely influential diagnosis leads education advocates to keep proposing still more of the wrong cure, while the real causes of school failure—the monopoly public education system, the teachers' unions, and the ed schools—go on wreaking their damage unimpeded, and inner-city schools keep on failing.
		Kozol's Dorchester school was about 60 percent fl at the time he denounced it as "segregated," but Boston soon had not a single school with a 40 percent white enrollment.
		Kozol's next two books did much to convince teachers of all races that their proper role is to subvert the mainstream beliefs that make America so racist and uncaring.
	www.city-journal.org /html/10_1_americas_most.html (3951 words)

	Kozol
		A keynote address by social activist and educator Jonathan Kozol, author of seven award-winning books on the plight of disadvantaged children in America, will kick off "Choices and Challenges for Public Education: An Agenda for the Twenty-First Century," the Center for Leadership and Public Interest Advocacy's (CLPIA) semester-long series of events focusing on public education.
		Jonathan Kozol graduated from Harvard University summa cum laude in 1958 and was a Rhodes Scholar at Magdalen College, Oxford.
		Kozol became a fourth-grade teacher in the Boston public schools that year; ever since, he has been drawing attention to issues surrounding education and social justice in America.
	www.mtholyoke.edu /offices/comm/csj/990205/kozol.html (515 words)

	OpinionJournal - Leisure & Arts
		Jonathan Kozol's analysis of American schools is worthy of a third-grader.
		Kozol may be the last moral man standing, but his nonstop sermonizing will not change the racial composition of the big-city schools that most fl and Hispanic students attend.
		Kozol talks dreamily of a new protest movement led by parents and teachers who have nothing to lose but their chains.
	www.opinionjournal.com /la?id=110007329 (879 words)

	Powell's Books - The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America by Jonathan Kozol (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Kozol tempers this gloom with hopeful interactions between energetic teachers and receptive children in schools where all is not lost.
		But these 'treasured places' don't hide the fact, Kozol argues, that school segregation is still the rule for poor minorities, or that Kozol, and the like-minded politicians, educators and advocates he seeks out, believe a new civil rights movement will be necessary to eradicate it.
		Jonathan Kozol is the National Book Award-winning author of Death at an Early Age, Savage Inequalities, and Amazing Grace.
	www.powells.com /biblio/1-1400052440-0 (1089 words)

	Author Jonathan Kozol to speak about social justice, public service March 19
		Jonathan Kozol is an inspiration, and we hope his visit will challenge our campus and community in some of the same ways his message has challenged the five of us.”
		Kozol’s newest book, “Ordinary Resurrections: Children in the Years of Hope,” published in May 2000, is the product of four years of interviews with children, families and teachers in the South Bronx –; one of the most violent, dangerous communities in the United States.
		Kozol’s career as an activist began in 1967, when he accepted a teaching position in a poor, fl section of Boston after graduating from Harvard University.
	www.wfu.edu /wfunews/2002/031102.html (759 words)

	The My Hero Project - Jonathan Kozol
		Jonathan Kozol was born in Boston in 1936 into a traditional middle-class Jewish family.
		Kozol's father worked as a neurologist and psychiatrist, and his mother was a social worker.
		Kozol has said, "Of all my books, Amazing Grace means the most to me. It took the most out of me and was hardest to write, because it was the hardest to live through those experiences.
	myhero.com /myhero/hero.asp?hero=jkozol (1140 words)

	Jonathan Kozol speaks at Blair - Silver Chips Online
		Kozol said that 60 percent of fl parents believe that integration is a necessity and also believe that the federal government should ensure that it happens.
		Kozol described the epitome of the lack of quality classes he came across, through telling the story of a high school student named Mariah who wanted to take an AP English class, but was forced to take a hair dressing class instead.
		Kozol proposed a solution to problems with the American school systems, calling for increased federal funding to all schools, to start solving problems for the youngest students first, where changes can be most easily achieved and to "scrap the whole system" of educating children in America that believes to be "inherently preposterous" and "inequitable."
	silverchips.mbhs.edu /inside.php?sid=5616 (1255 words)

	Jonathan Kozol
		Kozol also said that there is a very big chance of one's house catching on fire in the South Bronx.
		Kozol talked about some of the observations that he made and some of the feelings he felt while writing the book.
		Kozol described the neighborhood and some of the people who were being nice to him.
	www.nku.edu /~longa/public_html/heros/kozol/ce.html (856 words)

	Why are America's schools more separate than ever? \| csmonitor.com
		Jonathan Kozol, a onetime teacher and longtime children's advocate, continues to use every conscience-gripping word in his arsenal to try to revive such zeal.
		Kozol surrounds his anecdotes with data on demographics and funding inequities in a wide range of urban areas.
		Too often, Kozol notes, kids who are clustered in ill-equipped schools are blamed, along with their parents, for such dismal outcomes.
	www.csmonitor.com /2005/0920/p13s01-bogn.html (1127 words)

	Bates College \| 08-23-00 JONATHAN KOZOL TO DELIVER CONVOCATION ADDRESS
		Kozol's first book, "Death at An Early Age" (1967), established him as an angry and eloquent writer on behalf of children.
		Kozol continued to teach for the next 20 years, working at South Boston High School during the city's desegregation crisis, in Arizona with children of farm workers and in Cleveland with illiterate adults.
		Kozol published "Rachel and Her Children: Homeless Families in America" (1988) after spending much of winter 1985-86 living in a South Bronx, N.Y., homeless shelter and befriending its residents.
	www.bates.edu /x861.xml (387 words)

	Education World ® School Issues: Wire Side Chats: 'Ordinary Resurrections': An e-Interview With Jonathan Kozol
		Jonathan Kozol has dedicated his adult life to being an outspoken voice for poor people in the United States.
		Kozol decided that he wanted to be a teacher after three young civil rights workers were killed in 1964.
		Kozol's latest book, Ordinary Resurrections: Children in the Years of Hope, is available in paperback from HarperCollins Publishers, 10 East 53rd Street, New York, NY, 10022-5299.
	www.educationworld.com /a_issues/issues164.shtml (2501 words)

	UUA News & Events: General Assembly 2003: 3059 Savage Inequalities
		That's a segregation rate of 99.8%." Kozol made a comparison to school segregation under the Jim Crow laws in the southern United States in the mid-20th century.
		If Pineapple lived in one the wealthiest suburbs of New York, according to Kozol as much as $18,000 might be spent on her education in the public schools.
		Kozol contrasts the lack of government support for universal preschool education to current widespread support for high-stakes testing.
	www.uua.org /ga/ga03/3059.html (721 words)

	Amazon.com: Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools: Books: Jonathan Kozol (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Kozol believes that children from poor families are cheated out of a future by grossly underequipped, understaffed and underfunded schools in U.S. inner cities and less affluent suburbs.
		Kozol does visit the worst and best school the problem is the racial action, sure there will always be the half and half not but when the half-not are mostly minorities because the government traps them there- that is unfair.
		Jonathan Kozol documents specific incidents of this tradegy in Illinois, New York, New Jersey, and San Anontio, Texas.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0060974990?v=glance (2123 words)

	Amherst College News Releases: Jonathan Kozol Feb. 20 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		A working activist and also a perceptive theorist, Kozol documented his first year as a teacher in Death at an Early Age: The Destruction of the Hearts and Minds of Negro Children in the Boston Public Schools (1967), for which he received the National Book Award in 1968.
		For 40 years, Kozol has worked to expose racial inequalities in the education system and speak against the plight of disadvantaged children, bringing the plight of students in under-funded urban schools to the attention of the nation.
		Kozol has written several award-winning books, including The Night is Dark and I am Far from Home (1975), Children of the Revolution: A Yankee Teacher in the Cuban Schools (1978), Illiterate America (1985) and Amazing Grace: the Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation (1995).
	www.amherst.edu /~pubaff/news/news_releases/05/2006_02kozol.html (242 words)

	Sound Politics: Jonathan Kozol's Corrosive Tomfoolery
		Jonathan Kozol, described accurately here as a "weepy Marxist," is in Seattle for a Town Hall disquisition tonight on the racist savagery of foisting accountability on minority students and minority parents.
		Kozol is also flogging a new book, no less than four times this week in Western Washington and once more at the end of the month.
		Kozol's corrosive view is essentially that to succeed, fl and Hispanic students must escape their community's public schools for public schools in white neighborhoods.
	www.soundpolitics.com /archives/005116.html (5325 words)

	t r u t h o u t - Jonathan Kozol: Apartheid America (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		But for Kozol, who has built his career on exposing the race- and class-based injustices endemic to the United States' educational system, the knowledge that we live in a deeply divided society has long been a foregone - if heartbreaking - conclusion.
		Kozol accuses the Bush administration of implementing sinister educational policies in which rote memorization is valued more than imagination and children are treated as capitalist commodities to be molded into an army of obedient entry-level workers.
		Kozol, 69, lives outside Boston but was in New York last week on his book tour.
	www.truthout.org /docs_2005/092205N.shtml (4227 words)

	About Jonathan Kozol - On the Same Page Cincinnati - Cincinnati.Com
		--> Jonathan Kozol is an award-winning author who has explored the issues of illiteracy, public education, poverty and diversity within urban life since the early 1960s.
		Kozol was born in Boston in 1936, and studied at Harvard University and Oxford University.
		On Savage Inequalities: A Conversation with Jonathan Kozol
	www.cincinnati.com /samepage/author_kozol.html (215 words)

	Salon.com Life \| Apartheid America - NP (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Jonathan Kozol rails against a public school system that, 50 years after Brown v.
		But for Kozol, who has built his career on exposing the race- and class-based injustices endemic to the United States' educational system, the knowledge that we live in a deeply divided society has long been a foregone -- if heartbreaking -- conclusion.
		For 40 years, in bestselling books such as "Savage Inequalities" and "Amazing Grace," Kozol has reported from urban schools across the nation, befriending teachers and students who, despite the promises of Brown v.
	www.salon.com /mwt/feature/2005/09/22/kozol/print.html (344 words)

	Jonathan Kozol \| Disney Family.com
		The other night I had the opportunity to hear writer-educator-activist Jonathan Kozol speak to a packed house at my local university.
		For those of you who are not familiar with his work, Kozol has been writing about the inequalities in public education for over 40 years.
		Kozol has a reputation for talking about things that many people find uncomfortable to hear.
	family.go.com /blogpost/emilyarms/FB1E1A96-2785-4453-BA72-7EDF2819CBE6 (457 words)

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