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DESCRIPTION:Event Name: Lecture and book signing with author Jonathan Kozol
 \nEvent Url: http://www.artsboston.org/event/detail/441653718/Lecture_and_
 book_signing_with_author_Jonathan_Kozol\nEvent Date Begin: 2012-10-30\nEve
 nt Date End: 2012-10-30\n\nLesley University will host Jonathan Kozol\, on
 e of the nation's most acclaimed authors on education\, for a lecture and 
 book signing on his latest book\, Fire in the Ashes: 25 Years Among the Po
 orest Children in America.\nLesley welcomes Kozol on Tuesday\, October 30\
 , 2012 at 6pm in Washburn Auditorium on Lesley's Brattle Campus\, 10 Phill
 ips Place\, Cambridge. His talk is free and open to the public\, and he wi
 ll be introduced by Lesley Professor Emerita Nancy Carlsson-Paige\, an exp
 ert on early childhood development and passionate advocate for the equal r
 ight of every child to a high quality education.\nKozol\, a National Book 
 Award&ndash\;winning author\, will join the Lesley community to discuss hi
 s recently-released Fire in the Ashes\, an engrossing narrative that follo
 ws the people he met decades ago in a squalid Manhattan welfare hotel and 
 in the South Bronx's Mott Haven ghetto.\nKozol graduated summa cum laude f
 rom Harvard in 1958\, after which he was awarded a Rhodes scholarship to O
 xford University. In the passion of the civil rights campaigns of 1964 and
  1965\, Kozol gave up the prospect of a promising and secure career within
  the academic world\, moved from Harvard Square into a poor black neighbor
 hood of Boston\, and became a fourth grade teacher.\nHe has since devoted 
 nearly his entire life to the challenge of providing equal opportunity wit
 hin our public schools to every child\, of whatever racial origin or econo
 mic level. Kozol speaks widely at universities and to future teachers\, an
 d has spent much of the last two years lobbying political leadership in Wa
 shington to radically revise No Child Left Behind.\nHis acclaimed books in
 clude: Death at an Early Age\, a description of his first year as a teache
 r\, which received the 1968 National Book Award in Science\, Philosophy\, 
 and Religion\; Rachel and Her Children\, a study of homeless mothers and t
 heir children\, which received the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award for 1989\;
  and Savage Inequalities\, which was a finalist for the National Book Crit
 ics Circle Award in 1992.\nFor more information or to register for this ev
 ent\, click here.\n
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SUMMARY:Lecture and book signing with author Jonathan Kozol
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