Education Reporting in NYC
In her 2013 book, The Smartest Kids in the World, and How They Got That Way, Samantha Ripley, draws comparisons between the relatively successful education systems in three countries Finland, Poland …
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In A Hope in the Unseen, Ron Suskind follows Cedric Jennings, a young Black student from an impoverished neighborhood in Washington, D.C. Jennings gets accepted into an Ivy League school, Brown University, …
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I thought of the Biblical story of Adam and Eve and the apple as I read The Teacher Wars: A History of America’s Most Embattled Profession by Dana Goldstein. The …
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Adrian Nicole LeBlanc’s Random Family explores a range of themes: cyclical poverty, failure of the social services system, the value of education and inequality of women and girls, just to …
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Sarah Carr focused Hope Against Hope on the “ordinary rather than the extraordinary” to illuminate the debate over urban education as it formed in New Orleans during her year of reporting.
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A once vital industrial hub in New Jersey remakes its school system by building on its strengths, emphasizing “the ensemble, not the prima donna.”
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Recently shortlisted for the Lukas Book Prize, Dale Russakoff’s The Prize examines plans for the high-profile $100 million Facebook gift to “fix” Newark’s schools, and what went wrong along the way.
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“The Lost Children of Wilder” follows a lawsuit initiated to reform foster care. The author follows a riveting narrative of Shirley Wilder and by telling her story addresses all the wrongs within the never-ending cycle of foster care.
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In “All God’s Children, ” Fox Butterfield examines America’s tradition of violence, and the evolution of its juvenile justice system, through the life and ancestry of the man known as America’s most violent prisoner: Willie Bosket.
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Imagine you’re given several years of pedagogical study (or several weeks of training, as the case may be). Then you are thrown into a dunk tank, a classroom full of …
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