Jonathan Kozol

Racial segregation has come back to public education with a vengeance…

By far the most important factor in the success or failure of any school, far…

Many of those who argue for vouchers say that they simply want to use competition…

Apartheid education, rarely mentioned in the press or openly confronted even among once-progressive educators…

No Child Left Behind’s fourth-grade gains aren’t learning gains, they’re testing gains. That’s why…

I am opposed to the use of public funds for private education…

So long as these kinds of inequalities persist, all of us who are given expensive…

During the decades after Brown v. Board of Education there was terrific progress. Tens of…

When I was teaching in the 1960s in Boston, there was a great deal of…

I believe we need a national amendment which will guarantee every child in America the…

The inequalities are greater now than in ’92. Some states have equalized per-pupil spending…

A great deal has been written in recent years about the purported lack of motivation…

But for the children of the poorest people we’re stripping the curriculum, removing the arts…

At that time, I had recently finished a book called Amazing Grace, which many people…

The primary victims of Katrina, those who were given the least help by the government…