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Savage Inequalities - Children in America's Schools (Paperback): Jonathan Kozol Savage Inequalities - Children in America's Schools (Paperback)
Jonathan Kozol
R490 R456 Discovery Miles 4 560 Save R34 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

For two years, beginning in 1988, Jonathan Kozol visited schools in neighborhoods across the country, from Illinois to Washington D.C., and from New York to San Antonio.He spoke with teachers, principals, superintendents, and, most important, children. What he found was devastating. Not only were schools for rich and poor blatantly unequal, the gulf between the two extremes was widening--and it has widened since. The urban schools he visited were overcrowded and understaffed, and lacked the basic elements of learning--including books and, all too often, classrooms for the students.
In "Savage Inequalities," Kozol delivers a searing examination of the extremes of wealth and poverty and calls into question the reality of equal opportunity in our nation's schools.

Kozol Jonathan : Illiterate America (Paperback): Jonathan Kozol Kozol Jonathan : Illiterate America (Paperback)
Jonathan Kozol
R616 R585 Discovery Miles 5 850 Save R31 (5%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"Kozol...has assembled facts, rebuttals, and proposals--in an emotionally potent, ethically charged package."--"Kirkus."

Letters to a Young Teacher (Paperback): Jonathan Kozol Letters to a Young Teacher (Paperback)
Jonathan Kozol
R538 Discovery Miles 5 380 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This is the book for readers of Jonathan Kozol's previous works on education, including "The Shame of the Nation" and "On Being a Teacher"; for readers of memoirs like Frank McCourt's "Teacher Man"; for new teachers looking for guidance and inspiration; and for educators, administrators, and children's advocates of all levels of experience.
From the award-winning author of bestsellers "Shame of the Nation, Savage Inequalities, Amazing Grace, Death at an Early Age," and "Ordinary Resurrections," Jonathan Kozol's most personally insightful and revealing work to date takes the form of encouraging letters to Francesca, a young classroom teacher, offering advice, personal stories, and a shared sense of outrage at the inadequacies of America's educational system.

'i Won't Learn From You': And Other Thoughts On Creative Maladjustment (Paperback, 2 Revised Edition): Herbert... 'i Won't Learn From You': And Other Thoughts On Creative Maladjustment (Paperback, 2 Revised Edition)
Herbert Kohl, Jonathan Kozol
R564 Discovery Miles 5 640 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"I Won't Learn From You," Herb Kohl's now-classic essay on "not learning," or refusing to learn, is available for the first time in an affordable paperback edition along with four other landmark essays. Drawing on an idea of Martin Luther King Jr.'s, Kohl argues for "creative maladjustment" in the classroom and anywhere else that students' intelligence, dignity, or integrity are compromised by a teacher, an institution, or a larger social mindset. This volume also includes "The Tattooed Man," Kohl's autobiographical essay about "hopemongering," which Kohl finds essential for all effective teaching in these difficult times.

The Heart Knows Something Different - Teenage Voices from the Foster Care System (Hardcover): Youth Communication The Heart Knows Something Different - Teenage Voices from the Foster Care System (Hardcover)
Youth Communication; Edited by Al Desetta; Foreword by Jonathan Kozol
R919 R838 Discovery Miles 8 380 Save R81 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

There are more than 450,000 children living in foster care. The Heart Knows Something Different collects over three dozen personal narratives by young writers, ages 15 to 20, and provides an insider's account of growing up in "the system." It takes us into a world largely hidden from public view, and attests to the mix of pain and fear, and sometimes hope, and sometimes even happiness that the foster care experience involves.

On Being a Teacher (Paperback): Jonathan Kozol On Being a Teacher (Paperback)
Jonathan Kozol
R823 Discovery Miles 8 230 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In this critique of the US public school system, the author uses examples from the real experiences of other teachers and parents who share his concern with shaping the values of caring, responsible citizens of the future. Kozol has also written Illiterate America and Savage Inequalities.

On Being a Teacher (Paperback, Revised edition): Jonathan Kozol On Being a Teacher (Paperback, Revised edition)
Jonathan Kozol
R308 R281 Discovery Miles 2 810 Save R27 (9%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Jonathan Kozol, National Book Award-winning author and one of America's foremost writers on social issues, offers a passionate and provocative critique on the role of the teacher in America's public school system. Writing as a teacher, Kozol advocates an approach to education that is infused with ethical values: fairness, truth, and integrity, and a driving compassion for the world beyond the classroom. Kozol not only sheds light on what it means to be a teacher, but gives constructive suggestions on how teachers can work conscientiously within the system to foster these values in concert with parents, students and fellow teachers.

Kozol Jonathon : Death at an Early Age (Paperback): Jonathan Kozol Kozol Jonathon : Death at an Early Age (Paperback)
Jonathan Kozol; Preface by Robert Coles
R600 R569 Discovery Miles 5 690 Save R31 (5%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In this National Book Award-winning book, Kozol unflinchingly exposes the disturbing "destruction of hearts and minds in the Boston public school." A new Epilogue assesses the last 20 years of the educational system.

Fire in the Ashes - Twenty-Five Years Among the Poorest Children in America (Paperback): Jonathan Kozol Fire in the Ashes - Twenty-Five Years Among the Poorest Children in America (Paperback)
Jonathan Kozol
R550 Discovery Miles 5 500 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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 previous prize-winning books, and to the children he has vividly portrayed, to share with us their fascinating journeys and unexpected victories as they grow into adulthood.
For nearly fifty years, Jonathan has pricked the conscience of his readers by laying bare the savage inequalities inflicted upon children for no reason but the accident of being born to poverty within a wealthy nation. But never has his intimate acquaintance with his subjects been more apparent, or more stirring, than in "Fire in the Ashes," as Jonathan tells the stories of young men and women who have come of age in one of the most destitute communities of the United States. Some of them never do recover from the battering they undergo in their early years, but many more battle back with fierce and often jubilant determination to overcome the formidable obstacles they face. As we watch these glorious children grow into the fullness of a healthy and contributive maturity, they ignite a flame of hope, not only for themselves but also for our society.

Amazing Grace - The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation (Paperback): Jonathan Kozol Amazing Grace - The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation (Paperback)
Jonathan Kozol
R541 Discovery Miles 5 410 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"Amazing Grace "is Jonathan Kozol's classic book on life and death in the South Bronx--the poorest urban neighborhood of the United States. He brings us into overcrowded schools, dysfunctional hospitals, and rat-infested homes where families have been ravaged by depression and anxiety, drug-related violence, and the spread of AIDS. But he also introduces us to devoted and unselfish teachers, dedicated ministers, and--at the heart and center of the book--courageous and delightful children. The children we come to meet through the friendships they have formed with Jonathan defy the stereotypes of urban youth too frequently presented by the media. Tender, generous, and often religiously devout, they speak with eloquence and honesty about the poverty and racial isolation that have wounded but not hardened them. Amidst all of the despair, it is the very young whose luminous capacity for love and transcendent sense of faith in human decency give reason for hope.

Rachel and Her Children - Homeless Families in America (Paperback): Jonathan Kozol Rachel and Her Children - Homeless Families in America (Paperback)
Jonathan Kozol
R503 Discovery Miles 5 030 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The story that jolted the conscience of the nation when it first appeared in "The New Yorker"
Jonathan Kozol is one of America's most forceful and eloquent observers of the intersection of race, poverty, and education. His books, from the National Book Award-winning "Death at an Early Age" to his most recent, the critically acclaimed "Shame of the Nation," are touchstones of the national conscience. First published in 1988 and based on the months the author spent among America's homeless, "Rachel and Her Children" is an unforgettable record of the desperate voices of men, women, and especially children caught up in a nightmarish situation that tears at the hearts of readers. With record numbers of homeless children and adults flooding the nation's shelters, "Rachel and Her Children" offers a look at homelessness that resonates even louder today.

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