Jonathan Kozol - Letters to a Young Teacher

This video program is available in full at www.pdxjustice.org and at the Google Video website (search on keywords "pdxjustice" and "Kozol"). Award-winning journalist and author of Letters to a Young Teacher, The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America, Amazing Grace, Savage Inequalities, Death at an Early Age, Ordinary Resurrections, Rachel and Her Children, and Illiterate America.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• NCLB
• no child left behind
• testing
• education
• equality
• inequality
• apartheid
• segregation
• phonics
• teachers
• teaching

[tjm220]

Mr. Kozol spoke at my school tonight, I hope that he can succeed in getting No Child Left Behind repealed. I got to talk with him afterwards, last person to get my copy of his book signed. We had a really nice conversation about NY State Regents requirements being just like NCLB. Just before he left, as he was walking to his car outside he turned to me and said "You have that look in your eye of someone who will change the world." I'm still wondering if he's right about that.

[Confucious2012]

If this video was about porno then it would have thousands og views. So sad.

[kiheisam]

Thanks for posting this video. Mr. Kozol was my fourth grade teacher at the Christopher Gibson school in Boston. Not fully understanding the implications he made for years, still evolves new thought. He connected with the students, and got us involved with issues of the day and expanded our world by believing as young students we could learn outside of text books. I wonder how much more I would have learned had he stayed.

[MultiCoolmath]

@tjm220 You will change the world take his word seriously.

[amyeileen]

I want to add that the program to which I refer is a voluntary program.

[amyeileen]

I had a long conversation with a graduate of busing about the VIC program in St. Louis (She is in graduate school at Harvard presently). She told me something that changed my mind. She said that she was bussed each day into Ladue from the city. She said that if she hadn't been in that program, she would have grown up unaware that there were good white people in the world.

I respect that you don't want to see kids spending so much time on the bus. It is so complicated.

[theannapolisman]

This guy likes busing our students to schools across town to achieve intergration. What a terrible idea. I bet he's never had any kids of his own.