Death at an Early Age: The Classic Indictment of Inner-City Education

WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD In 1964, Jonathan Kozol entered the Boston Public School system to teach fourth grade at one of its most overcrowded inner-city schools. Here, he unflinchingly exposes the disturbing “destruction of hearts and minds in the Boston public school.” Death at an Early Age is the unsparing, heart-wrenching account of the year he spent there-the most shocking and powerful personal story ever told by a young teacher, now updated with a new epilogue by the author. “Honest and terrifying the heartbreaking story it tells has to be read.”-Robert Coles, The New York Times Book Review “Will anger you to the boiling point and may make you want to weep I recommend-with considerable urgency-Death at an Early Age.”-Chicago Tribune Jonathan Kozol is the author of Death at an Early Age, Savage Inequalities, Amazing Grace, and other award-winning books about young children and their public schools. Robert Coles is a professor of psychiatry and medical humanities at the Harvard Medical School and a research psychiatrist for the Harvard University Health Services. His many books include the Pulitzer Prize-winning five-volume Children of Crisis and the bestselling The Moral Intelligence of Children and The Spiritual Intelligence of Children. He is also the James Agee Professor of Social Ethics at Harvard. He lives in Massachusetts.