A Recently-Added Educational Event Not to Miss! Jonathan Kozol discusses and signs Letters to a Young Teacher <http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=7ewqddcab.0.5iyqddcab.4cemj687.26099&ts=S0263&p=htt p%3A%2F%2Fwww.vromansbookstore.com%2FNASApp%2Fstore%2FIndexJsp%3Fs%3Dstoreev ents%26eventId%3D354553>
Sunday, August 26, 4pm Join us for an exciting new addition to the August calendar ~ Jonathan Kozol, the National Book Award winner and bestselling author of Savage Inequalities, Rachel and Her Children, Shame of the Nation and the enduring educational classic, Death At An Early Age, heads to Vroman's for an evening of enlightenment on pertinent issues facing education today. It was in 1964 that Jonathan "a Harvard graduate, Rhodes Scholar & Guggenheim Fellow " first moved from Harvard Square into a poor black Boston neighborhood to become a fourth grade teacher. His book, Death At An Early Age, described his first year as a teacher and went on to win the 1968 National Book Award in Science, Philosophy and Religion. In 1980, he became increasingly concerned with the number of adults that couldnt read, and at the request of the Cleveland Public Library, he designed a literacy plan for the nations larger cities which also served as the basis for a similar effort undertaken by the State Library of California. It was this project that inspired the publication of Illiterate American, and later became the center of a national campaign to spur private & federal funding for adult literacy. A few years later ~ in 1989~ he revisited American schools, heading to both rich & poor institutions in more than 30 communities; the resulting book that followed, Savage Inequalities: Children in Americas Schools, became a critically-acclaimed sensation, hailed by major publications across the country as "powerful" and "searing" (Time), "crucial" (Publishers Weekly), and "essential" (The New York Times). Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation was published in 1995 after he spent 2 years with children, parents & priests (who befriended him in the process) in one of the most racially isolated and impoverished neighborhoods in the country: the South Bronx of New York. It was this gently-written narrative that won him the praise and respect of noteworthy individuals such as Toni Morrison, Pulitzer Prize winner David Garrow, and Elie Wiesel among many others. To date, he's devoted more than 40 years of his life to the reform of education and social justice in America, and his newest book, Letters to a Young Teacher, reviews many of the basic issues he's spent his life exploring. In it, he cleverly weaves his observations ~ as well as a thinly disguised biographical memoir ~ into a series of 16 letters written to Francesca, a first-grade teacher at an inner-city public school in Boston. Overall, the book will delight and encourage first-year (or for that matter, fortieth-year) teachers who need Kozol's reminders of the ways that their beautiful profession can bring joy, beauty, mystery and mischievous delight into the hearts of children during their years of greatest curiosity. Vroman's Bookstore | 695 E. Colorado Blvd. | Pasadena | CA | 91101 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Digest: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Help: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Post: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive1: <http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive2: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
