Jonathan Kozol
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Jonathan Kozol is an American Educator and Non-Fiction Writer, born in Boston in 1936. He is renowned for his works on public education in the US, such as 'Death at an Early Age', 'The Shame of the Nation', 'Savage Inequalities' and 'Fire in the Ashes'. He has dedicated his life to providing equal opportunities in public schools for children of all backgrounds, and is a strong advocate of the 'school voucher' movement. His books are based on his own experiences and provide powerful insights into social issues such as segregated and inadequate schools, illiteracy and vagrancy. He has won numerous awards and accolades for his work, and is highly respected in the education field.
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Who is it? Educator & Non-Fiction Writer
Birth Day September 05, 1936
Birth Place Boston, United States
Age 86 YEARS OLD
Birth Sign Libra
Occupation Writer
Subject Multicultural education, Critical theory, Education reform

💰 Net worth: $200,000 (2024)

Jonathan Kozol, a renowned educator and non-fiction writer in the United States, is estimated to have a net worth of $200,000 as of 2024. Throughout his career, Kozol has dedicated his life to advocating for educational equality and social justice, particularly for underprivileged students. His impactful work includes books such as "Savage Inequalities" and "Death at an Early Age," shedding light on the inequities within the American education system. With his profound contributions and unwavering dedication, Kozol continues to shape public consciousness and inspire change.

Biography/Timeline

1954

Born to Harry Kozol and Ruth (Massell) Kozol, Jonathan graduated from Noble and Greenough School in 1954, and Harvard University summa cum laude in 1958 with an A.B. in English literature. He was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to Magdalen College, Oxford. He did not, however, complete his Rhodes, deciding instead to go to Paris to learn to write fiction and nonfiction from experienced authors such as william Styron, Richard Wright, and others who were living in Paris at the time. It was upon his return that he began to tutor children in Roxbury, MA, and soon became a Teacher in the Boston Public Schools. He was fired for teaching a Langston Hughes poem, as described in Death at an Early Age, and then became deeply involved in the civil rights movement. After being fired from Boston Public Schools, he was offered a position to teach at Newton Public Schools, the school district he attended as a child, and taught there for several years before becoming more deeply involved in social justice work and dedicating more time to writing.

1967

Death at an Early Age, his first non-fiction book, is a description of his first year as a Teacher in the Boston Public Schools. It was published in 1967 and won the National Book Award in Science, Philosophy and Religion. It has sold more than two million copies in the United States and Europe.

1989

Among the other books by Kozol are Rachel and Her Children: Homeless Families in America, which received the Robert F. Kennedy Book award for 1989 and the Conscience-in-Media Award of the American Society of Journalists and Authors, and Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools, which won the New England Book Award and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1992.

1995

His 1995 book, Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation, described his visits to the South Bronx of New York City, the poorest congressional district in the United States. It received the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in 1996, an honor previously granted to the works of Langston Hughes and Martin Luther King, Jr..

2005

He published Ordinary Resurrections: Children in the Years of Hope in 2000 and The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America was released September 13, 2005. Kozol documents the continuing and often worsening segregation in public schools in the United States, and the increasing influence of neoconservative ideology on the way children, particularly children of color and poor children of urban areas, are educated.

2019

For contributions and additional information on the Education Action Fund, see The Education Action Fund On the Contacts Page of Kozol’s website (www.jonathankozol.com).

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