Fire in the Ashes: Twenty-Five Years Among the Poorest Children in America
For decades, Jonathan Kozol has been a voice for education equity and justice. His writing about schools and children’s lives is filled with insight, compassion, warmth, and a fierce critique of anything that smells of racial bias.
Over the years, Jonathan has also been a generous supporter of Rethinking Schools-offering kind endorsements for our books, speaking at Rethinking Schools benefits, allowing us to reprint his articles, and, of course, sharing his wisdom and friendship.
Jonathan has a new book out, which we want to draw your attention to: Fire in the Ashes: Twenty-Five Years Among the Poorest Children in America (Crown Books). Renowned educator and Rethinking Schools contributor Deborah Meier writes:
“Kozol has a knack for describing his relationships with poverty-stricken children with a sympathy that is so straightforward one cannot indulge in pity. Fire in the Ashes is a wonderful book. I couldn’t put it down.”
We’ve shared Jonathan’s book tour schedule below-which includes a Sept. 29th stop in Milwaukee, sponsored by the Milwaukee Teachers’ Education Association, Educators’ Network for Social Justice, and Rethinking Schools. We’ll send details closer to the event.
We hope that you’ll try to make one of Jonathan Kozol’s lectures and check out Fire in the Ashes-the latest volume in Jonathan’s decades-long critical observation of this country’s “savage inequalities.”
Bob Peterson and Bill Bigelow
for the Rethinking Schools editors and staff
August 29, 7 PM: New York City
Lecture and book-signing at Barnes & Noble, Union Square
Open free to public
September 4, 7 PM: Washington D.C.
Open free to public
September 6, 12 Noon: San Francisco
Open to public/Admission fee for luncheon includes price of book
September 7, 7:30 PM: Berkeley, California
Open to public/token admission fee
September 10, 11:45 AM: Los Angeles
Open free to public
September 10, 7 PM: Los Angeles (Culver City)
ows Community School (8509 Higuera Street, Culver City, California 90232)
Open free to public
September 11, 7 PM: Phoenix, Arizona
Open free to public
September 12, 5:30 PM: Tempe, Arizona
Open free to public
September 14, 7 PM: Charleston, West Virginia
Venue: Charleston Marriott Town Center
September 17, 7PM: Holyoke/S. Hadley, Massachusetts
Open free to public
September 18, 7:30 PM: Amherst, Massachusetts
Open free to public
September 19, 7:30 PM: Cambridge, Massachusetts
Open to public by reservation for token fee
September 24, 5:30 PM: St. Louis, Missouri
Open free to public
September 26, 7 PM: DeKalb, Illinois
Open free to public
September 27, evening: Chicago
Open free to public
September 29, 4 PM: Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Open free to public
October 2, 7 PM: Miami, Florida
Open free to public
October 3, 7 PM: Jacksonville, Florida
Open free to public
October 8, 7:30 PM: Knoxville, Tennessee
Open free to public
October 10, 7 PM: Reading, Pennsylvania
Open free to public
Open free to public if space available
October 17, 7 PM: Meadville, Pennsylvania
Open free to public
October 30, 6 PM: Cambridge, Massachusetts
Open free to public
November 8, 11:30 AM: Atlantic City, New Jersey
Open free to teachers if space available
November 9, 5 PM: New York City
Open free to public
November 14, 7 PM: Boulder, Colorado
Open free to public
November 16, 12:30 PM: Las Vegas, Nevada
Open free to NCTE attendees
December 29, 1 PM: Washington D.C.
Venue: undecided
Open free to public if space available
Thanks for the heads up from Rethinking Schools —TBH
