Word: kozol
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...Before the end of the school year, Kozol was fired for teaching the poetry of Langston Hughes...
...Kozol landed a job teaching in Newton, a wealthier school district but one that also implemented a successful integrative busing program...
...Kozol translated his early teaching experiences into “Death at an Early Age: The Destruction of the Hearts and Minds of Negro Children in the Boston Public Schools,” his first book of non-fiction. Its selection for the National Book Award in 1968 “unfortunately propelled me into a public role, which I had never wanted,” he said...
...dozen books and two Guggenheim fellowships later, Kozol continues his advocacy for better public school systems and funding. A vocal critic of the No Child Left Behind Act, Kozol said he has spent recent months working with the staff of Senator Barack Obama on policy briefs. And last year, Kozol founded the Cambridge Institute for Public Education to prevent the drain of qualified teachers from public schools...
...When Kozol read from his newest book, “Letters to a Young Teacher,” to a packed Memorial Church in September, Hornig was in the crowd. After the talk, she said, she finally overcame her hesitations about teaching and applied to Teach For America (TFA), which places college graduates in two-year teaching positions in high-need school districts. (She will be teaching high school French in the Mississippi Delta region next year...