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Book Review: Stories of Survival Along the City’s Margins

March 16, 2016March 25, 2020 - by Jamie Martines

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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Book Review on Leblanc’s Random Family

February 12, 2015February 14, 2015 - by Mayah Collins

Adrian Nicole Leblanc spent a decade reporting on the lives of urban street kids and their families in the South Bronx. It all started in the early 1990s when a …

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Paul Tough Tackles How Children Succeed

May 1, 2014 - by Oghene Oyiborhoro

For the better part of the last decade New York Times reporter Paul Tough has written about education, poverty and the obstacles to success students both in New York and across America face.

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Divided We Fail: The Story of an African American Community That Ended the Era of School Desegregation

April 30, 2014April 30, 2014 - by Jose Luis Munoz

Sarah Garland’s “Divided We Fail” tells the story of how the African-American community in Louisville, Kentucky challenged and defeated the system of desegregation in pubic schools.

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Beyond Clichés: Ron Suskind’s “A Hope in The Unseen”

March 9, 2014March 9, 2014 - by Dartunorro Clark

Ron Suskind challenged the American Dream when he began reporting A Hope in the Unseen, published in 1995. The maxim that working hard guaranteed success looked very different for the “other America.”

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Ravitch Takes Aim at the Marketplace Reformers

March 6, 2014March 6, 2014 - by Madeleine Cummings

Diane Ravitch takes critical aim at American education reform in The Death and Life of the Great American School System (2010), evaluating the effectiveness of standardized testing, choice, and charter …

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A Journey Through America’s Charter-School Laboratory

February 19, 2013May 7, 2013 - by Luke Hammill

New Orleans journalist Sarah Carr considers the big issues of education reform today through the lives and experiences of New Orleans’ kids and educators.

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Random Family by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc

May 4, 2012 - by Sarah Tan

Random Family offers a clear-eyed look into the poverty-stricken world of the South Bronx in the 1980s.

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Choosing Life Over the Street

March 31, 2012May 3, 2012 - by Nikhita Venugopal

By the ages of 9 and 11, Pharaoh and Lafeyette Rivers knew they had to walk, not run, at the sound of gunfire. They stayed away from windows when shootings …

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The Big Test: An Informed History, A Decade Too Early

March 3, 2012May 3, 2012 - by Andrew Parsons

Nicholas Lemann dives into the past of America’s most famous test.

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