More “Poverty Clinic” reactions
There are a few new interesting blog posts about “The Poverty Clinic,” my profile in the New Yorker of the pediatrician Nadine Burke. On WellCommons, a community health website in Lawrence, Kansas, the...
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1. Here’s a review of “Whatever It Takes” by Jennifer L. Steele, published in the Harvard Educational Review back in the fall of 2009, but only now available online. Steele writes: Whatever It Takes is...
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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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More on the New Yorker story
Online, there is some new commentary on “The Poverty Clinic,” my article on Nadine Burke and the Adverse Childhood Experiences study that the New Yorker published in March. Here’s a column by Richard...
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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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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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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 ArticleBlog Status: Quiet
Dear Readers, As you can see, I’m no longer updating this blog with much regularity. I’m leaving it in place here on my website because it’s a useful (to me, at least) archive of posts from 2008 to...
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