Jonathan Kozol

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1. Jonathan Kozol

   Author of Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation, The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America, Illiterate America

2. Barbara Ehrenreich

   Author of Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America, Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream, Fear of Falling: The Inner Life of the Middle Class

3. Tracy Kidder

   Author of Mountains Beyond Mountains, Among Schoolchildren, Home Town

4. Alex Kotlowitz

   Author of There Are No Children Here, The Other Side of the River: A Story of Two Towns, a Death, and America's Dilemma

5. bell hooks

   Author of Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom, Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope

6. Lisa Delpit

   Author of Other People's Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom, The Skin That We Speak: Thoughts on Language and Culture in the Classroom

7. Studs Terkel

   Author of Working, Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression, Race: How Blacks and Whites Think and Feel about the American Obsession

8. Howard Zinn

   Author of A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present, Voices of A People's History of the United States, The Zinn Reader: Writings on Disobedience and Democracy

9. John Dewey

   Author of Experience And Education, Democracy And Education

10. Paulo Freire

    Author of Pedagogy of the Oppressed

11. Taylor Branch

    Author of Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63, Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years 1963-65, At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68

12. Cornel West

    Author of Race Matters, Democracy Matters: Winning the Fight Against Imperialism

13. James Baldwin

    Author of The Fire Next Time, Notes of a Native Son, Nobody Knows My Name

14. John Caldwell Holt

    Author of How Children Learn, How Children Fail, Learning All the Time

15. Esmé Raji Codell

    Author of Educating Esmé: Diary of a Teacher's First Year

16. Molly Ivins

    Author of Bushwhacked: Life in George W. Bush's America, Shrub: The Short but Happy Political Life of George W. Bush, Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She?

17. David K. Shipler

    Author of The Working Poor: Invisible in America

18. Thomas Frank

    Author of What's the Matter with Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America

19. Beverly Daniel Tatum

    Author of "Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?": A Psychologist Explains the Development of Racial Ident

20. Alfie Kohn

    Author of Punished By Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes, No Contest: The Case Against Competition, The Schools Our Children Deserve: Moving Beyond Traditional Classrooms and "Tougher Standards"