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...time he was 27, Kozol became a permanent substitute teacher for a fourth grade class in Roxbury, a post that allowed him to teach regularly without the required teaching credentials...
...Those kids were as bright as the kids I grew up with. It was purely an accident of birth that they were so far behind." Despite the fact that most of his fourth grade students were lacking in basic skills, Kozol began teaching them the poetry of Langston Hughes and Robert Frost...
When school officials learned what Kozol was teaching, he was fired for "curriculum deviation." Thinking back on his dismissal, Kozol said last week, "I think the students suffered because of the symbolic bitterness of having just lost a teacher who had put poetry, and poetry written by a Black man, in their hands...
Based on his experience in Roxbury's public schools, Kozol wrote "Death at an Early...
Grants from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller Foundations during the past seven years enabled Kozol to do the research that culminated in the writing of "Illiterate America," which was published last year...