Wednesday, September 24th, 2008
Chalk and Awe
Sara Eckel has an article today in Time Out New York about me and my book:
“In a lot of books about social programs, there is a tight focus on one great teacher, one great classroom, and then they all go on to a chess championship. But you don’t see how that fits into a bigger picture,” says Tough, who says he was inspired by Julie Salamon’s The Devil’s Candy and Michael Lewis’s Moneyball, books in which reporters spent a year or more following people who were trying to solve a complicated problem, while also providing a larger context for the issue itself. “I wanted to write a book that would follow a real narrative—with characters and ups and downs—but that would also answer some of these big questions about poverty.”