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As half of new teachers are likely to quit within the first five years on job, Jonathan Kozol has written a new book of letters to a first year teacher. The semi-fictionalized \u201cFrancesca,\u201d based on young educators who have written to Kozol over the years, is a new first-grade teacher in an inner city public school in Boston. Through a series of sixteen letters, Kozol offers his advice on the challenges and joys of teaching within an apartheid school system in the United States. In \u201cLetters to a Young Teacher,\u201d Kozol also goes to core issues effecting public education by discussing No Child Left Behind, school vouchers and excessive testing standards. The long-time educational advocate who started the new non-profit \u201cEducation Action,\u201d has protested No Child Left Behind, by going on a liquid diet fast. Jonathan Kozol first began working with children in inner city schools more than forty year ago. In that time, he has also authored numerous books including Death at an Early Age, The Shame of the Nation and Savage Inequalities. People\u2019s historian Howard Zinn has said of Kozol\u2019s latest work that \u201cteachers, students, parents alike will find this book inspiring.\u201d<\/p>\n Event Details: | the entire program GUEST: Jonathan Kozol, author of “Letters to a Young Teacher” As half of new teachers are likely to quit within the first five years on job, Jonathan Kozol has written a new book of letters to a first year teacher. The semi-fictionalized \u201cFrancesca,\u201d based on young educators who have written to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1987\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}GUEST: Jonathan Kozol, author of “Letters to a Young Teacher”<\/em><\/p>\n
\nLetters to a Young Teacher
\nA discussion and book-signing with Jonathan Kozol
\nStanding Up, Speaking Out, Fighting Back in the Era of Privatization
\nTues October 9th, 6:30pm,
\nImmanuel Presbyterian Church (across from UTLA)
\n3300 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"