Jonathan Kozol is an American writer and educator born in 1936 in Boston, Massachusetts. He has written several works about flaws and inequalities in the American public education system. Kozol received fellowships from prestigious institutions like the Guggenheim Foundation and Rockefeller Foundation. He founded non-profits like the Cambridge Institute for Public Education and Education Action to advocate for social justice and grassroots organizing among teachers. Some of Kozol's most notable works exposing inequalities in public schools include Death at an Early Age, Savage Inequalities, and The Shame of the Nation.

1. Jonathan Kozol

2. BiographySeptember 5, 1936 – Present

3. Boston, Massachusetts

4. Non-fiction Writer

5. Education Activist

6. Public Education

7. Noble and Greenough School - 1954

8. Harvard– 1958

9. Rhodes Scholarship – Magdalene, Oxford

10. Paris – Fiction / Non-fictionWilliam Styron – Sophie’s ChoiceRichard Wright – The Outsider

11. Biography IIRoxbury, MA – Tutoring

12. Teacher Boston Public Schools-Fired - Langston HughesCivil Rights Movement

13. Newton Public Schools

14. Social Justice Work

15. WritingFellowships & FoundationsGuggenheim Fellowships

16. Rockafeller Foundation (Twice)

17. Field Foundation

18. Ford FoundationBeliefsTheory of Value

19. Theory of Knowledge

20. Theory of Human Nature

21. Theory of Learning

22. Theory of Transmission

23. Theory of Society

24. Theory of Opportunity

25. Theory of ConsensusWorks*Death At An Early Age: The Destruction of the Hearts and Minds of Negro Children in the Boston Public Schools - 1967*Free Schools*The Night Is Dark and I am Far From Home*Prisoners of Silence*Alternative Schools*Illiterate America*Rachel and Her Children - 1988*Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools1991*Amazing Grace*Ordinary Resurrections*The Shame of the Nation*Letters To a Young Teacher

26. Non-ProfitCambridge Institute for Public Education-Grassroots organizing of teachersEducation Action!-US national support structure-Education activists

27. Works Citedhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonat

28. http://www.americanswhotellthetruth.org/pgs/portraits/Jonathan_Kozol.php

29. http://www.corwin.com/upm-data/4071_Ch_3_Death_at_an_Early_Age_by_Jonathan_Kozol.pdf

30. http://www.newfoundations.com/GALLERY/Kozol.html