Jonathan Kozol Audio & Video

Amazing Grace is a book about about the hearts of children who grow up in the South Bronx - the poorest congressional district of our nation....

Education writer Jonathan Kozol deplores the state of public education and suggests that U.S. schools are anything but equal as he reads from his new book, "The Shame of the Nation".

Author and education activist Jonathan Kozol talked about his life, his career, and his body of writing.

Jonathan Kozol discusses Letters to a Young Teacher.

In these affectionate letters to Francesca, a first grade teacher at an inner-city school in Boston, Jonathan Kozol vividly describes his repeated visits to her classroom while, under Francesca’s likably irreverent questioning, also revealing his own most personal stories of the years that he has spent in public schools.

Jonathan Kozol traveled from the most blighted neighborhoods of Chicago to the urban wreckage of Camden, New Jersey; from the ghetto suburbs of Detroit to inner-city San Antonio; East St. Louis, and Washington, D.C.