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Jonathan Kozol

Jonathan Kozol (* 5. September1936 in Boston, Massachusetts) ist ein US-amerikanischer Sachbuch-Autor, Pädagoge und Aktivist, der für seine Bücher über die öffentliche Bildung in den Vereinigten Staaten bekannt wurde.

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Kozol besuchte 1954 die Noble and Greenough School und bekam seinen Abschluss an der Harvard University mit summa cum laude im Jahr 1958 in englischer Literatur. Ihm wurde ein Rhodes-Stipendium für das Magdalen College in Oxford verliehen. Statt des Stipendiums ging er jedoch nach Paris, um dort von erfahrenen Autoren wie William Styron und Richard Wright Schreiben zu lernen. Nach seiner Rückkehr wurde er als Hauslehrer für Kinder in Roxbury engagiert. Bald darauf nahm er eine Stelle als Lehrer in der Boston Public Schools an. Dort wurde er jedoch entlassen, weil er ein Gedicht von Langston Hughes besprochen hatte. Diese Erfahrung beschrieb Kozol später in seinem Buch Death at an Early Age, das 1967 erschien und ein Jahr danach mit dem National Book Award ausgezeichnet wurde.^[1] Nach sein

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Jonathan Kozol

May 1996 Commencement Speaker

Educator, writer and activist Jonathan Kozol was born in Boston in 1936. His passionate, widely read books have influenced educational reform in America.

He earned a bachelor’s degree in English from Harvard University in 1958 and studied at Magdalen College, Oxford University, as a Rhodes Scholar in 1958-1959. Kozol’s deep concern for the plight of inner city children developed while he was teaching in the Boston public school system in the early 1960s. His experience there inspired his first major work, Death at an Early Age, which won the National Book Award in 1968. Believing that too much attention was being paid to the author and too little to the children the book describes, Kozol donated the cash award that accompanied the honor to inner city community leaders in Boston.

In 1966, after he was dismissed from the Boston school system for teaching the work of poet Langston Hughes, Kozol initiated a tutorial program at an inner city church. The project eventually became known as the New School for Children, a commu

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Jonathan Kozol Keynote Speaker

In 1967, during the heart of the civil rights movement, Jonathan Kozol, a young white teacher in the poor, black section of Boston was fired for reading a Langston Hughes poem to his fourth grade students.

“Death At An Early Age: The Destruction of the Hearts and Minds of Negro Children in the Boston Public Schools” (1967), a description of Jonathan’s first year as a teacher, received the 1968 National Book Award in Science, Philosophy and Religion. Now regarded as a classic by educators, “Death At An Early Age” sold more than two million copies in the United States and abroad.

Jonathan is author of “Rachel and Her Children: Homeless Families in America” (1989), a narrative portrayal of the day-to-day life struggle of some of the poorest people in America. The book was presented to state governors by homeless advocacy groups. Jonathan gave them his full support and founded The Fund for the Homeless, a non-profit organisation that provides homeless families with emergency assistance. The book received