Ordinary Resurrections
Children in the Years of Hope

Jonathan's humble, self-effacing prose covers much of the same territory of his previous books, but without obviously trying to make a point. He's more philosophical here, questioning what makes some children/schools/teachers succeed and even his own efforts and motives. We get more insights into hi......more

So happy I found this book. It filled a place in my heart that previously only was filled when working with children.......more

This is the first of Jonathan Kozol's books that I've read, and I got a lot of inspiration from it at a time when I've really been needing just that. I own and direct an early childhood center that's populated mostly by high-risk families, and I'd been feeling frustrated and hopeless lately by the m......more

Jonathon Kozol sings a pretty consistent tune over the course of his writing and political career: urban schools need money, segregation exists as strongly as ever in America, and it's overdue that we look at why our schools are failing. All those ideas are present in this book, and while the voice i......more

"This is a book about a group of children whom I've come to know during their early years of life, not in the infant years but in the ones just after, when they start to go to school and poke around into the world and figure out what possibilities for hope and happiness it holds. Most of these child......more