Jonathan Kozol

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Jonathan Kozol

Jonathan Kozol (born September 5, 1936 in Boston , Massachusetts) is an American non-fiction author, educator and activist, who is known for his books on public education in the United States.

Life

Kozol visited in 1954, the Noble and Greenough School, and got his degree from Harvard University with summa cum laude in 1958 in English literature. He was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to Magdalen College , Oxford. Instead of the scholarship, however, he went to Paris to learn to write from experienced authors such as William Styron and Richard Wright . On his return he was hired as a tutor for children in Roxbury . Soon after, he accepted a teaching position at the Boston Public Schools. There he was released, however, for reviewing a poem by Langston Hughes . Kozol later described this experience in his book Death at an Early Age , which appeared in 1967 and won the National Book Award a year later . After his release, he took a job at Newton Public Schools and taught there for several years before devoting himself entirely to his work as a writer and activist.

Kozol is a supporter of the American civil rights movement and advocates social justice, especially when it comes to schooling. His books, which were mostly published in large editions, reflect these views. Various grants have been awarded to Kozol, including the Guggenheim grant and the Rockefeller Foundation .

Kozol currently serves on the editorial board of Greater Good Magazine , published by the Good Science Center at the University of California, Berkeley .

Works (selection)

  • Death at an early age; the destruction of the hearts and minds of Negro children in the Boston public schools. Boston 1967, Houghton Mifflin.
  • Free schools. Boston 1972, Houghton Mifflin, ISBN 0-395-13606-7 .
  • The night is dark and I am far from home. Boston 1975, Houghton Mifflin, ISBN 0-395-20727-4 .
  • Rachel and her children: homeless families in America. New York 1988, Crown Publishers, ISBN 0-517-56730-X .
  • Savage inequalities: children in America's schools. New York 1991, Crown Publishers, ISBN 0-517-58221-X .
  • Amazing grace: the lives of children and the conscience of a nation. New York 1995, Crown Publishers, ISBN 0-517-79999-5 .
  • Ordinary resurrections: children in the years of hope. New York 1995, Crown Publishers, ISBN 0-517-70000-X .
  • The shame of the nation: the restoration of apartheid schooling in America. New York 2005, Crown Publishers, ISBN 1-4000-5244-0 .
  • Letters to a young teacher. New York 2007, Crown Publishers, ISBN 0-307-39371-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The National Book Awards, bookweb.org ( Memento of the original from October 18, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bookweb.org
  2. ^ Fellow Jonathan Kozol, 1970, General Nonfiction, gf.org
  3. ↑ Annual Report 1978, Rockefeller Foundation (PDF; 4.5 MB)
  4. ↑ Jonathan Kozol, greatergood.berkeley.edu
personal data
SURNAME Kozol, Jonathan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American non-fiction author, educator, and activist
DATE OF BIRTH September 5, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Boston , Massachusetts