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Author tasks students with changing U.S. public education

September 30, 2008

Calling for a renewed push to end segregated education, with many children of color trapped in crumbling inner-city schools, author and activist Jonathan Kozol delivered a blistering critique of American public education policies to hundreds of people gathered Sept. 23 for the 2008-09 Common Reading Lecture at Elon University.