Jonathan Kozol

Biography•September 5, 1936 – Present•Boston, Massachusetts•Non-fiction Writer•Education Activist•Public Education•Noble and Greenough School - 1954•Harvard – 1958•Rhodes Scholarship – Magdalene, Oxford•Paris – Fiction / Non-fiction

William Styron – Sophie’s ChoiceRichard Wright – The Outsider

Biography II

•Roxbury, MA – Tutoring•Teacher Boston Public Schools

-Fired - Langston Hughes•Civil Rights Movement•Newton Public Schools•Social Justice Work•Writing

Fellowships & Foundations

• Guggenheim Fellowships

• Rockafeller Foundation (Twice)

• Field Foundation

• Ford Foundation

Beliefs

•Theory of Value•Theory of Knowledge•Theory of Human Nature•Theory of Learning•Theory of Transmission•Theory of Society•Theory of Opportunity•Theory of Consensus

Works

*Death At An Early Age: The Destruction of the Hearts and Minds of Negro Children in the Boston Public Schools - 1967*Free Schools*The Night Is Dark and I am Far From Home*Prisoners of Silence*Alternative Schools*Illiterate America*Rachel and Her Children - 1988*Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools

1991 *Amazing Grace*Ordinary Resurrections*The Shame of the Nation*Letters To a Young Teacher

Non-Profit•Cambridge Institute for Public Education

-Grassroots organizing of teachers

•Education Action!-US national support structure-Education activists

Works Cited

•http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonat

•http://www.americanswhotellthetruth.org/pgs/portraits/Jonathan_Kozol.php

•http://www.corwin.com/upm-data/4071_Ch_3_Death_at_an_Early_Age_by_Jonathan_Kozol.pdf

•http://www.newfoundations.com/GALLERY/Kozol.html