Born: 5-Sep-1936
Birthplace: Boston, MA

Gender: Male
Religion: Jewish
Race or Ethnicity: White
Occupation: Educator, Author

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Death at an Early Age

Father: (neurologist)
Mother: (social worker)

    University: Harvard University (1958, summa cum laude)
    University: Magdalen College, Oxford University (Rhodes Scholarship)

    Rhodes Scholarship
    Guggenheim Fellowship 1970
    Guggenheim Fellowship 1984
    National Book Award for Science, Philosophy, Religion 1968 for Death at an Early Age

Author of books:
Death at an Early Age (1967)
Free Schools (1972)
The Night is Dark and I am Far From Home (1975)
Children of the Revolution (1980)
Prisoners of Silence: Breaking the Bonds of Adult Illiteracy in the United States (1980)
On Being a Teacher (1981)
Alternative Schools: A Guide for Educators and Parents (1982)
Illiterate America (1986)
Rachel and Her Children: Homeless Families in America (1988)
Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools (1991)
Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation (1995)
Ordinary Resurrections: Children in the Years of Hope (2000)
The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America (2005)
Letters to a Young Teacher (2007)

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