August 9, 2012
Jonathan Kozol: 25 Years Among the Poorest Children
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 racial bias.
Kozol has a new book out, 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.”
Kozol starts his book tour in late August, which includes a Sept. 29th stop in Milwaukee, sponsored by the Milwaukee Teachers’ Education Association, the Educators' Network for Social Justice, and Rethinking Schools. More details will be available soon.
Jonathan's Fire in the Ashes Book Tour, 2012
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.
Lecture and book-signing sponsored by Politics & Prose Bookstore
Venue: Sidwell Friends School Meeting House (3825 Wisconsin Avenue Northwest)
Open free to public
September 6, 12 Noon: San Francisco
Lecture and book signing
Venue: Book Passage (51 Tamal Vista Boulevard, Corte Madera)
Open to public/Admission fee for luncheon includes price of book
September 7, 7:30 PM: Berkeley, California
Lecture and book-signing hosted by Berkeley and Oakland Teachers’ Unions and KPFA radio
Venue: Martin Luther King Middle School
Open to public/token admission fee
September 10, 11:45 AM: Los Angeles
Lecture and book-signing hosted by Occidental College
Open free to public
September 10, 7 PM: Los Angeles (Culver City)
Lecture and book-signing hosted by Willows Community School
Venue: auditorium at Willows Community School (8509 Higuera Street, Culver City, California 90232)
Open free to public
September 11, 7 PM: Phoenix, Arizona
Lecture and book-signing hosted by Phoenix College and the Chandler-Gilbert Community Colleges
Venue: Bulpitt Auditorium at Phoenix College
Open free to public
September 12, 5:30 PM: Tempe, Arizona
Lecture and book-signing hosted by Arizona State University
Open free to public
September 14, 7 PM: Charleston, West Virginia
Lecture and book-signing hosted by West Virginia School Board Association
Venue: Charleston Marriott Town Center
September 17, 7PM: Holyoke/S. Hadley, Massachusetts
Lecture and book-signing hosted by Odyssey Books at Holyoke Community College
Venue: Leslie Phillips Forum
Open free to public
September 18, 7:30 PM: Amherst, Massachusetts
Lecture and book-signing hosted by Amherst College
Venue: Johnson Chapel at Amherst College
Open free to public
September 19, 7:30 PM: Cambridge, Massachusetts
Lecture and book-signing hosted by Citizens for Public Schools
Venue: Harvard Memorial Chapel
Open to public by reservation for token fee
September 24, 5:30 PM: St. Louis, Missouri
Lecture and book-signing hosted by Webster University
Venue: Hilton Loretto Theater
Open free to public
September 26, 7 PM: DeKalb, Illinois
Lecture and book-signing hosted by Northern Illinois University
Venue: auditorium at DeKalb High School
Open free to public
September 27, evening: Chicago
Lecture and book-signing hosted by Bill Ayers, Mike Klonsky, SOS Chicago, and Chicago Teachers Union
Venue: Northwestern University Law School in Chicago
Open free to public
September 29, 4 PM: Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Lecture and book-signing hosted by Milwaukee Teachers’ Education Association and Rethinking Schools
Venue: Golda Meir Library, UWM
Open free to public
October 2, 7 PM: Miami, Florida
Lecture and book-signing hosted by Books & Books at University of Miami
Exact venue: undecided
Open free to public
October 3, 7 PM: Jacksonville, Florida - THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED.
October 8, 7:30 PM: Knoxville, Tennessee
Lecture and book-signing hosted by University of Tennessee
Venue: University Center Auditorium
Open free to public
October 10, 7 PM: Reading, Pennsylvania
Lecture and book-signing hosted by Alvernia College
Open free to public
October 15, 8:30 AM: Saratoga Springs, New York
Lecture and book-signing hosted by School Administrators of New York State
Venue: The Saratoga Hilton
Open free to public if space available
October 17, 7 PM: Meadville, Pennsylvania
Lecture and book-signing hosted by Allegheny College
Open free to public
October 30, 6 PM: Cambridge, Massachusetts
Lecture and book-signing hosted by Lesley University
Venue: Washburn Hall
Open free to public
November 8, 11:30 AM: Atlantic City, New Jersey
Lecture and book-signing hosted by New Jersey Education Association
Venue: Atlantic City Convention Center
Open free to teachers if space available
November 9, 5 PM: New York City
Lecture and book-signing hosted by City University of New York
Venue: CUNY Graduate Center
Open free to public
November 14, 7 PM: Boulder, Colorado
Lecture and book-signing hosted by University of Colorado Boulder
Venue: Mocky Auditorium
Open free to public
November 16, 12:30 PM: Las Vegas, Nevada
Breakfast sponsored by Random House and National Council of Teachers of English
Luncheon sponsored by NCTE Conference on English Education
Venue: as yet undecided
Open free to NCTE attendees
December 29, 1 PM: Washington D.C.
Lecture and book-signing hosted by Walden University
Venue: undecided
Open free to public if space available