Jonathan Kozol Summary

"Like some secular Savonarola, Jonathan Kozol has railed against complacency for more than thirty years," wrote Newsweek's Ellis Cose. Kozol is a well-known activist and writer who has focused his wri... Read more

Critical Essay by Granville Hicks [The elements of which "The Fume of Poppies" is made are] travel and sex, and Mr. Kozol writes about both with likable enthusiasm. Young as he is, M... Read more

Critical Essay by Toby Goldstein [Free Schools is] an indispensable handbook for any group planning to establish a free school. [Kozol] aims it at the underprivileged, non-white people, the ones who ... Read more

Critical Essay by Norman Solomon The Night Is Dark and I Am Far from Home challenges current fashions of equivocal dissent and reform-minded "innovations." Those forces controlling publ... Read more

Critical Essay by Anne Nelson [Children of the Revolution] retraces the [1961 Cuban literacy] campaign with the practiced eye of an educator, and then, startled and passionate, moves on to tell us ho... Read more

Critical Essay by Jeff Greenfield ["Prisoners of Silence"] is a book with a clear, specific issue. In American society, where words are so critical, at least 25 million people are �... Read more

Critical Essay by Richard Poirier ["Free Schools"] convincingly suggests that a school only becomes "free" when it creates around it a community of conscience about Ȃ... Read more

Imagine for a minute that one day you wake from a nights sleep to find nothing as it was, you don't know where you are, the people around you, or any aspect of your life that you were so sure of the n... Read more

Deprived of Amazing Grace Jonathan Kozol's book, Amazing Grace, analyzes the lives of the people living in the dilapidated district of South Bronx, New York. Kozol spends time touring the streets w... Read more