B.A., Harvard University; Rhodes Scholar, Magdalen College, Oxford.
Teacher, Boston public schools; Founder and Co-director, Storefront Learning Center; Social Activist.
Author of Death at an Early Age (1967), Free Schools (1972), Illiterate America (1985), Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools (1991), and Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation (1995).