Word: kozol
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bright young age of 31, Jonathan Kozol has become the nation's latest instant expert on the problems of urban schools. A frequent guest on television talk shows, he has more speaking dates than his calendar can handle, and last month he was invited to Washington to testify before a Senate subcommittee. What has made Kozol something of a celebrity is the success of his Death at an Early Age (Houghton Mifflin), a polemic against the treatment of Negro pupils in Boston's ghetto schools. Since publication last month, it has sold a thousand copies...
Death at an Early Age is based on Kozol's eight-month service as a $20-a-day substitute teacher at the Christopher Gibson School in the mostly Negro Roxbury neighborhood of Boston. A summa cum laude Harvard graduate and former Rhodes Scholar, Kozol was badly shaken by the experience-which ended abruptly when he was fired after reading to his class a poem by Negro Langston Hughes that was not on the teachers' approved reading list; it suggested that tenement tenants might justifiably put the slug on their landlords...
...Kozol's main charge is that a powerful anti-Negro prejudice permeates the entire Boston school system. When he first arrived in the system, Kozol contends, a fellow teacher pointed wearily at children in the playground and said: "Those are the animals, and this...
Boston is one of the few cities in the U.S. that allows teachers to use corporal punishment. Kozol charges that teachers sometimes employ bamboo rattans to whip the hands of their Negro charges with sadistic delight: "There are moments when the visible glint of gratification becomes undeniable in the white teacher's eyes...
Johnathan Kozol '58, author of Death at an Early Age, will speak at 8 p.m. in Quincy House for the benefit of the New School for Roxbury...