Pre-School for the Poor
In Bronx Center for Science and Math
For more than a decade, a wonderful experiment in providing a world-class education for the poor and underprivileged–mostly Latino and African-American students–has been turning out successful students in Durham, North Carolina. The school selects based on income, not race: all students must quality for the federal meal program. The school’s impact is small, but significant–and…Read More
As summer approaches again, my wife Barbara and I look forward to another season in Chautauqua, full of lectures, performances, and beautiful Finger Lakes weather. It’s a community founded in 1874 as a camp for training Sunday School teachers and has, over the years, become a cultural treasure, a place where the middle class can spend…Read More
Almost three years ago, a nine-year old girl in Scotland told her father she wanted to be a journalist. She didn’t want to wait. So her father suggested a blog about her school lunches. Together they figured out how to set one up, and called it Never Seconds, because someone had already claimed Oliver Twist’s “More Please.”…Read More
Any snowbird who summers in the Northeast and winters in Florida will, at one point or another, inevitably think one of two things: “Wegmans supermarkets remind me of Publix.” Or: “Publix supermarkets remind me of Wegmans.” Wegmans has stores throughout New York and in a few locations out of state. Publix serves customers in Florida.…Read More
Sister Tesa Fitzgerald is devoted to motherhood. As a nun in the order of Saint Joseph of Brentwood, she lives and works in Queens, running the organization she founded, Hour Children, to serve as a halfway house for women emerging from prison. The mission is to help them become the kind of mothers their children…Read More
