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A web cast of the lecture will be made available at http://streaming.sonoma.edu in the days following the event.
Jonathan Kozol, education advocate and acclaimed author of "Savage Inequalities" and "Ordinary Resurrections" lectures from his new book, "The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America" at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 11 in Evert B. Person Theater at Sonoma State University. This lecture is part of the Andrea Neves and Barton Evans Social Justice Lecture Series.
In his lecture, Kozol addresses the issues of the No Child Left Behind Act and the inferiority of the public education currently offered to Latino and African-American students.
Through his research, Kozol has discovered that despite reports of progress, the quality of education in America is rapidly regressing. He reports that segregation of African-American and Latino students is widespread, and far less is spent to educate them in comparison to the amount spent on white students. Kozol will lecture about these findings, as well as offer solutions for a better future.
Kozol graduated Summa Cum Laude in 1958 with a degree in English Literature from Harvard University and was awarded a Rhodes scholarship to Oxford University. In 1965, Kozol moved from Harvard Square into a poor black neighborhood of Boston and became a fourth-grade teacher in the Boston public schools. He has devoted the subsequent four decades to issues of education and social justice in America.
Tickets for this lecture are $5 general admission. SSU students will be admitted free of charge. Tickets are now on sale at the Sonoma State Student Union. For ticket information, call (707) 664-2382.
The lecture is also sponsored by the School of Social Sciences and the School of Education, along with the Office of Instructionally Related Activities and Associated Student Productions.
For more information, please contact Jean Wasp, Media Relations Coordinator, at (707) 664-2057.
