Word: kozol
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...undergraduate, Kozol said he was not directly involved in education advocacy...
Thinking back to his undergraduate years, Jonathan Kozol ’58 said he could not remember a single Harvard senior who planned to teach in the public schools...
...Teaching was not regarded as a sufficiently dignified profession for a Harvard graduate,” said Kozol, who attended the exclusive Noble and Greenough School in Dedham, Mass. While some classmates would teach at schools like his, “by and large teaching was unthinkable...
...Whether you are speaking about small apartheid schools or big ones...no matter how it’s tricked out, I believe it is not only an injustice, but a moral evil and a cancer to our society,” said Kozol, who authored “The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America...
...Kozol was outspoken in his criticism of the court, calling it “packed with sinister appointees of a reactionary president” and telling the audience “how devastating it is to see the clock turning back...