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Writing CreditsThe New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Kiplinger Retirement Report, The 74 Million, The Hechinger Report, The Washington Monthly, The Atlantic
Book CreditsBetter by Mistake: The Unexpected Benefits of Being Wrong, published by Riverhead Press
Awards, Honors, AppointmentsHigher Education Media Fellow from the Institute for Citizens & Scholars, Mar 2021. Fellowship awarded to 11 journalists to learn and write about career and technical education
Senior Fellow, FutureEd, 2018-present
Reporting Grant, The Investigative Fund, 2016. Grant to write about the impact of the College’s Board’s expansion of Advance Placement courses and tests into low-income schools. The piece appeared in The New York Times magazine.
Fellowship, The National Press Foundation, 2015. Fellowship to learn about issues American retirees are going to face over the next decades.
Finalist “Better by Mistake: The Unexpected Benefits of Being Wrong,” 2011. Issued by Books for A Better Life
Best in Business, Personal Finance, New York Times Shortcuts column, 2011, Issued by Society of Business Editors and Writers ·
Yale Law School Journalism Fellowship, Jan. 1987, Fellowship for journalists to study law for a year at Yale Law School, resulting in a Masters of Studies of Law.
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Experts say the pandemic and resulting changes in the working world may be encouraging people to rethink how essential passion for your job really is.
ReadMillions of federal and state dollars are spent each year on increasing the number of Advanced Placement classes in low-income majority black and Latino high schools. Is this a benefit to the students or a payday for the testing company?
Increasingly people who immigrated to the US decades ago are thinking of returning home to retire. What can they expect?
There is an importance to remembering. That is why my father, at 94, returned to Berlin in July after he was forced to flee his homeland 80 years ago. He and his family were about to become part of a unique artistic commemoration.
