Jonathan Kozol Audio & Video

In this powerful and culminating work about a group of inner-city children he has known for many years, Jonathan Kozol returns to the scene of his prize-winning books Rachel and Her Children and Amazing Grace....

Author and education activist Jonathan Kozol talked about his life, his career, and his body of writing.

Jonathan Kozol traveled from the most blighted neighborhoods of Chicago to the urban wreckage of Camden, New Jersey; from the ghetto suburbs of Detroit to inner-city San Antonio; East St. Louis, and Washington, D.C.

In these affectionate letters to Francesca, a first grade teacher at an inner-city school in Boston, Jonathan Kozol vividly describes his repeated visits to her classroom while, under Francesca’s likably irreverent questioning, also revealing his own most personal stories of the years that he has spent in public schools.

Kozol offers a humane, dramatic challenge to our nation to fulfill at last the promise made some 50 years ago to all our youngest citizens....

Amazing Grace is a book about about the hearts of children who grow up in the South Bronx - the poorest congressional district of our nation....

Education writer Jonathan Kozol deplores the state of public education and suggests that U.S. schools are anything but equal as he reads from his new book, "The Shame of the Nation".

Ordinary Resurrections is almost entirely narrative and takes us into the fascinating details of daily life as Kozol has lived it with young children who befriended him....

National Book Award winner Jonathan Kozol is best known for his 50 years of work among our nation's poorest and most vulnerable children.