Jonathan Kozol
Jonathan Kozol has been awarded the National Book Award and the Robert F. Kennedy Award. His book Savage Inequalities was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and became a national bestseller.
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Jonathan Kozol has been awarded the National Book Award and the Robert F. Kennedy Award. His book Savage Inequalities was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and became a national bestseller.
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Birth date: September 05, 1936
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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...
Diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease when he was 88 years old, Jonathan Kozol’s father lived to be 102. This book mostly centers on those years and the effects of the disease on his father, his mother and himself, with some back flashes to memories of his father and family life. Harry Kozol was a n...
Outdated and at times overly emotional, but that aside, this is an excellent overview of the effects of the wild inequities in many American school systems.
This book should be read by all. We who are well off can scarcely understand how poor the poor really are. This book brings awareness. The book is difficult to read, given the dire situation described, but is written in such a manner that even humor is thrown in. The book lacks structure; that is wh...
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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