- Children of minorities, Children with social disabilities, Education, Education, Urban
Includes case studies of public schools in six cities.
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Earnest, grave, classical in form and contemporary.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- unpretentiousprestige
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- Author
- Jonathan Kozol
- First published
- 1991
- Pages
- 262
- Publisher
- Unabridged Library Edition, HarperPerennial, Crown Pub.
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781417616343
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“ast of anywhere" writes a reporter for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, "often evokes the other side of the tracks.”
Jonathan Kozol is a non-fiction writer, educator, and activist best known for his work towards reforming American public schools. Upon graduating from Harvard, he received a Rhodes scholarship. After returning to the United States, Kozol became a teacher in the Boston Public Schools, until he was fired for teaching a Langston Hughes poem. Kozol has held two Guggenheim Fellowships, has twice been a fellow of the Rockefeller Foundation, and has also received fellowships from the Field and Ford Foundations. Most recently, Kozol has founded and is running a non-profit called Education Action. The group is dedicated to grassroots organizing of teachers across the country who wish to push back aga
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