The Mercury Reader: A Custom Publication

by Jonathan Kozol

The Human cost of an Illiterate Society by Jonathon Kozol, How To Say Nothing in 500 Words by Paul Roberts, American Ignorance of War by Czeslaw Milosz, Music by Alan Bloom, Body and The Musical Miseducation of the Youth by Martha Bayles, I Have A Dream by Martin Luther King Jr, Seeing by Annie Dillard, Deride and Conquer by Mark Crispen Miller, Sex Lies and Advertising by Gloria Steinem, Future Shlock by Neil Postman.

131 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2001

About the author

Jonathan Kozol is a non-fiction writer, educator, and activist best known for his work towards reforming American public schools. Upon graduating from Harvard, he received a Rhodes scholarship. After returning to the United States, Kozol became a teacher in the Boston Public Schools, until he was fired for teaching a Langston Hughes poem. Kozol has held two Guggenheim Fellowships, has twice been a fellow of the Rockefeller Foundation, and has also received fellowships from the Field and Ford Foundations. Most recently, Kozol has founded and is running a non-profit called Education Action. The group is dedicated to grassroots organizing of teachers across the country who wish to push back against NCLB and the most recent Supreme Court decision on desegregation, and to help create a single, excellent, unified system of American public schools.