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No Excuses essay
I’m hard at work on “The Success Equation,” my second book, which will be published next year. So I’m behind on my blog updates (and everything else). Some belated news from July: I published an essay...
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Times Magazine article on character
This weekend’s New York Times Magazine includes an article I wrote about character education. It focuses on a collaborative project between the KIPP schools in New York City and Riverdale Country...
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Character reaction
There’s been a lot of interesting commentary, from a variety of sources, on my article for the New York Times Magazine on character education, which draws on some of the reporting that I’ve been doing...
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More character reaction
Some more blog reaction to my article on character education in the New York Times Magazine, from Mothering 21 (a blog for parents of adult children who aren’t quite sure if they’re adults or...
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Some response from around the web to my article in the New York Times Magazine on character education at KIPP and Riverdale Country School. The magazine published a few letters to the editor here. On...
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Two recent broadcast/podcast interviews about my article in the New York Times Magazine on character education at KIPP and Riverdale. On the American RadioWorks weekly podcast about education, I talked...
View ArticleThree Things
Three fairly random items from various sources, each, in its own way, heart-warming (for me, at least): 1. In 2010, James Shechter, a sophomore at the Haverford School, a private school near...
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Times Magazine article
My new article on poverty, Barack Obama, and the Chicago neighborhood of Roseland is now online on the New York Times’s website. It will be the cover story in the Times Magazine this weekend.
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Obama/Poverty Reaction
Some reactions to my article in the Times Magazine on President Obama, Roseland, and poverty: 1. Whet Moser at Chicagomag.com makes the point that Obama’s healthcare reforms are arguably themselves an...
View ArticleBill Moyers on Times Magazine Article
Bill Moyers comments on my Times Magazine article on Roseland, poverty, and Barack Obama. More here.
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