Lannan Readings & Conversations
Jonathan Kozol
with Sarah KnoppWednesday September 26 2007
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Jonathan Kozol's books have set the agenda for social change for three decades, covering issues such as illiteracy, homelessness, racial segregation, and poverty in America. His publications include Savage Inequalities, Amazing Grace, and Ordinary Resurrections. For his book, The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America, Kozol visited 60 schools in 11 states over a five-year period and finds, despite the promise of Brown v. Board of Education, many schools serving black and Hispanic children are spiraling backward to the pre-Brown era. His most recent book, Letters to a Young Teacher, is a guide into "the joys and challenges and passionate rewards of a beautiful profession."
Sarah Knopp is a high school teacher in the Los Angeles Unified School District. She has contributed articles to California: Under Corporate Rule by Peter Camejo, United Teacher, the newspaper of United Teachers of L.A., CounterPunch.org, and to the International Socialist Review.
