kozol in seattle!

October 8, 2007

kozol

this weekend, i had the good fortune of seeing the great jonathan kozol lecture at the seattle central library. he’s touring the country to promote a book he just wrote called letters to a young teacher, a collection of letters he wrote to a new first grade teacher working at the same low-income school he worked at some forty years ago. he counsels this teacher as she works hard to teach and care for her kids, while steadfastly keeping her middle-finger upright and fixed toward the white house. Read the rest of this entry »