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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.
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.
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.
"Kozol...has assembled facts, rebuttals, and proposals--in an emotionally potent, ethically charged package."--"Kirkus."
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.
Does our society care about its children? This provocative and in-depth examination of violence in the lives of children uncovers the conditions and social policies that perpetuate violence. In addition, this volume forces us to look at other forms of violence confronting children in families, neighborhoods, and schools: The violence of poverty and homelessness The violence of environmentally induced childhood diseases The media and legislative "criminalization" of children The increasing trend toward incarceration of youthful offenders The pre-eminent contributors to this volume examine these issues from both historical and contemporary public policy perspectives. They address the myths and realities of youth violence and the impact of poverty, race, and gender. Prevailing ideas about punishment and retribution, the role of the state in terms of private or public responsibility, and the developmental needs of the child are all themes that frame the multiple advocacy perspectives presented by these cogent essays.
The story that jolted the conscience of the nation when it first
appeared in "The New Yorker"
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