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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...
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...
...Following is an excerpt from onathan Kozol's controversial speech delivered last Sunday at the Ford Hall Forum. Kozol, a Harvard graduate currently teaching in Newton, was fired from the Boston School System in 1965 for reading a poem by Langston Hughes to his largely Negro class. His book, Death at an Early Age, was published recently...