Award-Winning Writer and Social Activist Jonathan Kozol Lectures at Rowan
Award-Winning Writer and Social Activist Jonathan Kozol Lectures at Rowan
March 6, 2002
Glassboro?Award-winning writer and social activist Jonathan Kozol will speak at Rowan University on March 12 at 11 a.m. in the Pfleeger Concert Hall. He will lecture on <+>Ordinary Resurrections: The ethical resilience of low-income children in our segregated and unequal schools.<+> A book signing session will follow the lecture.
Kozol has spent the last 30 years writing about the daily struggles of the poor, illiterate and homeless. He is the author of six books including <+>Amazing Grace,<+> in which he explores the innocence of disadvantaged youths in the South Bronx after spending two years with residents.
Kozol's social activism began in the ?60s in part as a result of being fired for reading an African American author?s work to his students in a segregated Massachusetts public elementary school. He drew upon his experiences as an urban school teacher to pen the award-winning <+>Death at an Early Age,<+> considered a classic by educators today.
A Harvard University graduate and Rhodes Scholar, Kozol most recently received the New England Book Award in 1991 and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in 1996.
The lecture will air live on Rowan Radio, 89.7 WGLS-FM
Kozol has spent the last 30 years writing about the daily struggles of the poor, illiterate and homeless. He is the author of six books including <+>Amazing Grace,<+> in which he explores the innocence of disadvantaged youths in the South Bronx after spending two years with residents.
Kozol's social activism began in the ?60s in part as a result of being fired for reading an African American author?s work to his students in a segregated Massachusetts public elementary school. He drew upon his experiences as an urban school teacher to pen the award-winning <+>Death at an Early Age,<+> considered a classic by educators today.
A Harvard University graduate and Rhodes Scholar, Kozol most recently received the New England Book Award in 1991 and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in 1996.
The lecture will air live on Rowan Radio, 89.7 WGLS-FM