{"title":"Jonathan Kozol","description":"Jonathan Kozol is the author of Death at an Early Age, Savage Inequalities, Amazing Grace, and other award-winning books about young children and their public schools.","products":[{"product_id":"death-at-an-early-age-the-classic-indictment-of-inner-city-education-national-book-award-winner-paperback","title":"Death at an Early Age: The Classic Indictment of Inner-City Education (National Book Award Winner) - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 1964, Jonathan Kozol entered the Boston Public School system to teach fourth grade at one of its most overcrowded inner-city schools. Here, he unflinchingly exposes the disturbing \"destruction of hearts and minds in the Boston public school.\" \u003ci\u003eDeath at an Early Age \u003c\/i\u003eis the unsparing, heart-wrenching account of the year he spent there--the most shocking and powerful personal story ever told by a young teacher, now updated with a new epilogue by the author. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Honest and terrifying... the heartbreaking story it tells has to be read.\"--\u003cb\u003eRobert Coles, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Will anger you to the boiling point and may make you want to weep... I recommend--with considerable urgency--\u003ci\u003eDeath at an Early Age\u003c\/i\u003e.\"--\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51326508794079,"sku":"9780452262928","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/n9psZiQ2Z99780452262928.webp?v=1788462141"},{"product_id":"letters-to-a-young-teacher-paperback","title":"Letters to a Young Teacher - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"This remarkable book is a testament to teachers who not only respect and advocate for children on a daily basis but who are the necessary guardians of the spirit. Every citizen who cares about the future of our children ought to read this.\"--Eric Carle, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Very Hungry Caterpillar \u003c\/i\u003eand other classic works for children\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Kozol's love for his students is as joyful and genuine as his critiques of the system are severe. He doesn't pull punches.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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, he also reveals his own most personal stories of the years that he has spent in public schools. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eLetters to a Young Teacher\u003c\/i\u003e reignites a number of the controversial issues Jonathan has powerfully addressed in his bestselling \u003ci\u003eThe Shame of the Nation \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eOn Being a Teacher\u003c\/i\u003e the mania of high-stakes testing that turns many classrooms into test-prep factories where spontaneity and critical intelligence are no longer valued, the invasion of our public schools by predatory private corporations, and the inequalities of urban schools that are once again almost as segregated as they were a century ago. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut most of all, these letters are rich with the happiness of teaching children, the curiosity and jubilant excitement children bring into the classroom at an early age, and their ability to overcome their insecurities when they are in the hands of an adoring and hard-working teacher.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51326511284447,"sku":"9780307393722","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/dkuu4MnCJJ9780307393722.webp?v=1788462153"},{"product_id":"we-shall-not-bow-down-children-of-color-under-siege-an-invocation-to-resistance-paperback","title":"We Shall Not Bow Down: Children of Color Under Siege: An Invocation to Resistance - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn eloquent and passionate call for educational transformation.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the culminating work of his career, groundbreaking educator Jonathan Kozol goes back into urban schools, where racial isolation is at the highest level since he became a teacher and is now compounded by a new regime of punitive instruction and coercive uniformity that is deemed to be appropriate for children who are said to be incapable of learning in more democratic ways, like children in more privileged communities. Kozol believes it's well past time to batter down the walls between two separate worlds of education and to make good, at long last, on the \"promissory note\" that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. described on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in 1963. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eWe Shall Not Bow Down\u003c\/i\u003e takes aim directly at the disparate agenda that denies Black and Latino children the right to ask discerning questions about a system that places them in toxic sequestration and substitutes draconian penalties and a constant fear of failure for anything resembling healthy motivation. This extreme degree of indoctrinational and authoritarian instruction, Kozol writes, has robbed too many of our children of the power to think independently at a time when it is desperately needed in the face of an administration that is threatening the very essences of democracy. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eWe Shall Not Bow Down\u003c\/i\u003e is a significantly revised and expanded version of Kozol's book, \u003ci\u003e An End to Inequality\u003c\/i\u003e, which the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e called \"An unapologetic cri de coeur about the shortcomings of the schools that serve poor Black and Hispanic children, and thus, the moral failure of the nation to end the inequality [Kozol] has documented for decades.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAt this moment of political retrenchment, with Trump and Musk riding high, it may seem an impossible dream, but Kozol argues convincingly that it's a goal worth fighting for.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51329898971359,"sku":"9781644215302","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/cgGCqqtVUW9781644215302.webp?v=1788529860"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/jonathan-kozol.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}