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Fire in the Ashes: Twenty-Five Years Among the Poorest Children in America - Jonathan Kozol
Fire in the Ashes: Twenty-Five Years Among the Poorest Children in America
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Format: kindle
ASIN: B007MGPXO8
Publisher: Crown
Pages no: 368
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction, Autobiography, Memoir, History, Adult, Education, Politics, Sociology, Social Issues, Social Movements, Social Justice, Poverty
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spoko
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I probably would have enjoyed this book more if I had re-read Amazing Grace before reading this. I remembered a few of these people, but not most. Taken on its own, then, this book is interesting but not exactly gripping. It leans pretty heavily on Kozol's personal relationships with these particula...
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Peace, Love & Books
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4.0 Fire in the Ashes: Twenty-Five Years Among the Poorest Children in America
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This book will be most appreciated by readers familiar with Kozol's other works, particularly titles relating to the children and families he has come to know at St. Ann's. Twenty-five years after beginning to follow the lives of these impoverished children, the author offers updated findings. He co...
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debnance
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4.0 Fire in the Ashes: Twenty-Five Years Among the Poorest Children in America
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Jonathan Kozol breaks my heart every time I open one of his books. Who knew the suffering children are experiencing in homes in the poorest areas of our country? Who knew how schools, the last hope of many, are giving up on these children? Who knew?Kozol revisits children he has run across in his wo...
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Bright and Shiny Shiny
Bright and Shiny Shiny rated it
5.0
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This book made me angry and yet sad at the same time. I feel like we are leaving whole segments of our country behind and it feels as though we are doing it deliberately. These people don't matter because they are brown and black or ethnic and are not somehow deserving of the same benefits as the ...
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Bright and Shiny Shiny
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5.0 Fire in the Ashes: Twenty-Five Years Among the Poorest Children in America
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This book made me angry and yet sad at the same time. I feel like we are leaving whole segments of our country behind and it feels as though we are doing it deliberately. These people don't matter because they are brown and black or ethnic and are not somehow deserving of the same benefits as the ...
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Fire in the Ashes: Twenty-Five Years Among the Poorest Children in America - Jonathan Kozol
Fire in the Ashes: Twenty-Five Years Among the Poorest Children in America - Jonathan Kozol
Fire in the Ashes: Twenty-Five Years Among the Poorest Children in America - Jonathan Kozol
Fire in the Ashes: Twenty-Five Years Among the Poorest Children in America - Jonathan Kozol
Fire in the Ashes: Twenty-Five Years Among the Poorest Children in America - Jonathan Kozol
Fire in the Ashes: Twenty-Five Years Among the Poorest Children in America - Jonathan Kozol
Fire in the Ashes: Twenty-Five Years Among the Poorest Children in America - Jonathan Kozol
Fire in the Ashes: Twenty-Five Years Among the Poorest Children in America - Jonathan Kozol
Fire in the Ashes: Twenty-Five Years Among the Poorest Children in America - Jonathan Kozol, Keythe Farley
Fire in the Ashes: Twenty-Five Years Among the Poorest Children in America (Audio) - Jonathan Kozol
Books by Jonathan Kozol
Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools - Jonathan Kozol
The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America - Jonathan Kozol
Fire in the Ashes: Twenty-Five Years Among the Poorest Children in America - Jonathan Kozol
Letters to a Young Teacher - Jonathan Kozol
Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation - Jonathan Kozol
Ordinary Resurrections: Children in the Years of Hope - Jonathan Kozol
Death at an Early Age - Jonathan Kozol, Robert Coles
The Uses of Haiti - Paul Farmer, Jonathan Kozol, Noam Chomsky
The Theft of Memory: Losing My Father, One Day at a Time - Jonathan Kozol
Rachel and Her Children: Homeless Families in America - Jonathan Kozol
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