In 1964, Jonathan Kozol [the author] entered the Boston Public School System to teach fourth grade at one of its most overcrowded inner-city schools - a place where "the books are junk, the paint peels, the teachers call you nigger, and the windows fall in on your heads." This b…
The story of the year the author spent teaching in a predominantly black school in Boston.
The story of the year the author spent teaching in a predominantly black school in Boston.
The author of Savage Inequalities, a New York Times best-seller, and Rachel and Her Children, winner of the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, tells the stories of a handful of children who have--through the love and support of their families and dedicated community leaders--not yet …
Tells the stories of a handful of children who have--through the love and support of their families and dedicated community leaders--not yet lost their battle with the perils of life in America's most hopeless, helpless, and dangerous neighborhoods.
For nearly fifty years Jonathan has pricked the conscience of his readers by laying bare the savage inequalities inflicted upon children for no reason but the accident of being born to poverty within a wealthy nation. A winner of the National Book Award, the Robert F. Kennedy Bo…
For nearly fifty years Jonathan has pricked the conscience of his readers by laying bare the savage inequalities inflicted upon children for no reason but the accident of being born to poverty within a wealthy nation. A winner of the National Book Award, the Robert F. Kennedy Bo…