Posted on Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Westminster College will host author and educator Jonathan Kozol for two sessions of "Shame of the Nation: Still Separate, Still Unequal" Tuesday, Feb. 22. Both presentations are free and open to the public.
The afternoon session will be from 12:40-1:30 p.m. in the Witherspoon Rooms of the McKelvey Campus Center. The evening lecture will be from 7-8:30 p.m. in Wallace Memorial Chapel.
Following his graduation from Harvard with a degree in English literature, Kozol was awarded a Rhodes scholarship to Oxford University. Spurred by the civil rights movement of the mid-1960s, he moved from Harvard Square to a poor black neighborhood in Boston and became a teacher in the Boston public schools. He devoted the next four decades to issues of education and social justice in America.
His critically-acclaimed and award-winning books include Death at an Early Age, a description of his first year as a teacher; Rachel and Her Children, a study of homeless mothers and their children; The Shame of the Nation, a powerful exposé of conditions in nearly 60 public schools in 11 states; and Letters to a Young Teacher, his most recent work.
Kozol's appearance is sponsored by Westminster's Diversity Symposium, Drinko Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, Office of Diversity Services, and Student Government Association Diversity Committee.
Contact Jeannette Hubbard, Westminster director of diversity services, at (724) 946-7179 (e-mail hubbarj@westminster.edu) or Dr. Patrick Krantz, director of Westminster's Drinko Center, at (724) 946-6097 (e-mail krantzpd@westminster.edu) for additional information.
