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More Rounding Up
Monday, January 18th, 2010Leaving the Times
Friday, December 18th, 2009Two articles
Monday, September 28th, 2009Two magazine articles I wrote were recently published. The first, in GQ, is about Girl Talk, a DJ, and it doesn’t have much to do with “Whatever It Takes.” The second, in the New York Times Magazine, is about Tools of the Mind, and it’s somewhat more related. You can read the article here, and you can read blog posts about it here, here, here, here, here and here.
David Brooks on HCZ
Thursday, May 7th, 2009In Friday’s New York Times, an op-ed column by David Brooks on the Harlem Children’s Zone and on a new study of the Zone by Harvard economist Roland Fryer:
Fryer and his colleague Will Dobbie have just finished a rigorous assessment of the charter schools operated by the Harlem Children’s Zone. They compared students in these schools to students in New York City as a whole and to comparable students who entered the lottery to get into the Harlem Children’s Zone schools, but weren’t selected.
They found that the Harlem Children’s Zone schools produced “enormous” gains. …
To understand the culture in these schools, I’d recommend “Whatever It Takes,” a gripping account of Harlem Children’s Zone by my Times colleague Paul Tough, and “Sweating the Small Stuff,” a superb survey of these sorts of schools by David Whitman.
New York Times
Monday, October 20th, 2008The New York Times reviews Whatever It Takes:
When it comes to an introduction to the debate about poverty and parenting in urban America, you could hardly do better than Tough’s book. The children of the uneducated and impoverished too often bear a gloomy inheritance, their futures set in stone from an early age. Within Canada’s 97 blocks, Tough finds a different kind of legacy — one shaped by parents who have learned to pay attention to their children’s developmental needs. With a support network unlike anything else in America, the children of Harlem can envision a future so many others expect as a matter of course.
Obama on the Harlem Children’s Zone
Saturday, September 6th, 2008Obama and the Harlem Children’s Zone
Saturday, September 6th, 2008I’ve got an article in today’s New York Times Magazine about Geoffrey Canada and Barack Obama and the education schism inside the Democratic Party.