Holding fast to beliefs

Jonathan Kozol, a former teacher and author, entered the 67th day of a partial hunger strike on October 4. In a blog posted on the Huntington Post website (www.huntington.com), Kozol writes that he began his fast this past summer "as my personal act of protest at the vicious damage being done to inner-city children by the federal education law No Child Left Behind, a racially punitive piece of legislation that Congress will either renew, abolish, or, as thousands of teachers pray, radically revise in the weeks immediately ahead." In 1968, Kozol received the U.S. National Book Award in Science, Philosophy and Religion for Death at an Early Age. His newest book, Letters to a Young Teacher, was published in September.


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