I am a freelance writer and editor specializing in education writing. My work has most recently appeared in The Nation, The Christian Science Monitor, PBS Newshour Online, the Hechinger Report, Scholastic Administrator, Harvard University Graduate School of Education’s Ed Magazine, Columbia University’s Dental Medicine and Teacher’s College’s TC Today. I have more than 25 years of experience as a reporter and writer with journalistic credits ranging from The New Yorker’s Goings on About Town section to stringing for U.S. News & World Report.
I began my career as a reporter in Anniston, Alabama and earned a master’s degree from Columbia School of Journalism before settling in New York City. Other places my byline has appeared include Family Fun, Family.Com, Working Woman, Women’s Wire, The New York Law Journal, The New York Times, Black Enterprise, Barnard Alumnae Magazine, Newsday and Smithsonian.
In her six years as the social worker at El Dorado Elementary in San Francisco, Jennifer Caldwell has witnessed significant change. “It’s a lot calmer,”…
Soon after James Ponce became superintendent of McAllen Independent School District in Texas, in May 2009, he assembled a cadre of educators, students, parents, and…
In the view of Chester E. Finn, Jr., president of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, in Washington, D.C., there’s something particularly American about recovering high…
Two students Ron Walker encountered while working as a young teacher in Philadelphia led him to start the Coalition of Schools Educating Boys of Color.…
In January 2013, Joshua Starr, Ed.M.’98, Ed.D.’01, the superintendent of Montgomery County [Md.] Public Schools, was walking through New York City’s Central Park when the idea hit…
Commonwealth students tend to be a remarkably creative bunch–from studio to classroom, students are encouraged to make unexpected connections and then follow these new ideas.…
One thing is clear: David Lorsch ’88, vice president of strategy and business development at Strava, Inc., a social media platform for athletes, did not…
Some years ago, Lalitha Vasudevan spent the summer knocking around West Philadelphia with a group of fifth-grade boys, ostensibly making a mock horror movie. Vasudevan,…
IN A RECENT ISSUE OF MONITOR ON PSYCHOLOGY MAGAZINE, Jeanne Brooks-Gunn was reported to be “giddy with excitement.” The cause: She and her colleagues are…
This is an article about outsourcing school system management that was written for the 2009 Teachers College Annual Report. It includes discussion of the phenomenon…
This article appeared in the Spring 2007 issue of TC Today. Last spring Teacher’s College’s academic programs related to health worked together to formulate a…
In the early nineties, I wrote regularly for the New Yorker’s Goings on About Town section, doing short pieces about unusual outdoor sculpture that appeared…