Jonathan KozolA collection of 23 posts

Christmas

I beg people not to accept the seasonal ritual of well-timed charity on Christma...

Society

If you grow up in the South Bronx today or in south-central Los Angeles or Pitts...

Music

But for the children of the poorest people we're stripping the curriculum ...

Money

The inequalities are greater now than in '92. Some states have equalized pe...

Learning

No Child Left Behind's fourth-grade gains aren't learning gains they&...

Knowledge

So long as these kinds of inequalities persist all of us who are given expensiv...

Hope

The contrasts between what is spent today to educate a child in the poorest New ...

Government

The primary victims of Katrina those who were given the least help by the gover...

Future

Instead of seeing these children for the blessings that they are we are measuri...

Freedom

When I was teaching in the 1960s in Boston there was a great deal of hope in th...