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...Jonathan Kozol '58, the winner of the National Book Award in 1968 for "Death at an Early Age" and the author of the widely-acclaimed "Illiterate America," told an audience of 100 that presently the government is spending only one-tenth the amount needed to solve the literacy problem...
...widespread nature of the problem has tremendous economic consequences for the country and may cost the nation as much as 100 billion dollars a year in reduced productivity and welfare payments to illiterates locked out of the job force, Kozol said...
...books you read are written by the people your dean doesn't have the guts to hire," Kozol said, citing as an example the work of Paolo Friere, an educator whom Harvard did not tenure in the late 1960s...
...Kozol challenged his audience to act upon its convictions, saying that "you are the ones who are going to run our schools. You have the greatest power to make a difference if you want to, or you can add sustenance and strength to our social order as it now stands...
About 150 people attended Kozol's speech, the semi-annual William Burton lecture at the Ed School