education

“Scalping Courses: Tuition vouchers for sale on Craigslist. A deal?,” New York Times Education Life, Jan. 3, 2010.

“Education Leadership Skills to Fix Failing Schools,” New York Times Education Life, Jan. 3, 2010.

“Bonding and Bridging: Schools open doors for students by building social capital,” the Harvard Education Letter's Sept/Oct 2009 Monthly Feature.

“Dividing Up The Pot (Behind closed doors as aid officers decide just how much they want you to say yes),” New York Times, Education Life, April 19, 2009.

“Boston Reinvents Teacher Training,” Scholastic Administr@tor Magazine, March/April 2009.

“The Fallout,” The New York Times, January 4, 2009.

“Loans in the Time of Facebook,” The New York Times, November 2, 2008.

“Answers and Questions: Schools Survey Their Students -- and Grapple With the Results,” Harvard Education Letter, November/December 2008.

“Ultimate Study Tool: Frequent Testing,” (Education Life Supplement),” The New York Times, July 27, 2008.

“The endless school year,” (Education Life Supplement),” The New York Times, July 27, 2008.

“What About College? Too many students leave high school unprepared for the next step.” CommonWealth (Special issue: Education Reform at 15), June 2008

“The Power of Family Conversation,” Harvard Education Letter, May/June 2008.

“Small Kids, Big Words,” Harvard Education Letter, May/June 2008.

“Slackers, beware! That fat envelope is conditional. If your grades drop, some colleges won't hesitate to take it back,” New York Times Upfront, February 25, 2008.

“To Survive The Lecture Course, Take Heed If The Professor Waves His Arms (Education Life Supplement),” The New York Times, January 6, 2008.

“Meeting of the Minds: The parent-teacher conference is the cornerstone of school-home relations. How can it work for all families? Harvard Education Letter, July/August 2007.

“Lessons From The Loan Scandal (Education Life Supplement),” The New York Times, July 29, 2007.

“Harvard [loves] New York (Education Life Supplement),” The New York Times, April 22, 2007.

“Slackers, Beware (Education Life Supplement),” The New York Times, April 22, 2007.

“Conduct Unbecoming,” The New York Times, April 22, 2007.

“More than “Making Nice: Getting teachers to (truly) collaborate.” Harvard Education Letter, March/April 2007.

“A semester in Ghana: $4,725. A year in Beijing: $35,150. Experience abroad: Priceless? (Education Life Supplement),” The New York Times, November 4, 2007.

“The Foreign Legions (Education Life Supplement),” The New York Times, November 4, 2007.

“The Incredibles,” The New York Times, January 7, 2007.

“Language Lessons: Is English Immersion any Improvement over Bilingual Education?” CommonWealth, Winter 2006. Cover story.

“Top Preschool Teachers: and Their Smart Start Secrets.” Nick Jr. Family Magazine, September 2006. Cover story.

“Lost, Alone and Not a Freshman,” The New York Times, April 23, 2006.

“The Transfer Student Nightmare: Getting Credit Where Credit Is Due,” The New York Times, April 23, 2006.

“Flunking Out.” CommonWealth, Summer 2004. Story on what happens when school districts are labeled as “failures” under No Child Left Behind.

“Multiple Choice: Charter Schools Become Formidable Competitors for Students and Dollars.” CommonWealth, Winter 2003.

“Making the Grade: In the Hudson Schools, a Surprising Story of Ed Reform.” Boston Globe Magazine, April 21, 2002. Cover story.

“It's About Time.” CommonWealth, Spring 2001. Fifth anniversary issue piece on idea that went nowhere: Longer school days.

“Campus Politics: Bulger Remakes UMass Image - And His Own.” CommonWealth, Summer 2000. Cover story.

“Too Busy To Play: Are We Overscheduling Our Children?” Boston Globe Magazine, February 11, 1996. Cover story.

sports/gender

“Ponytail Pull Was Bad (But Good for Women's Sports),” Huffington Post, November 19, 2009. Why Elizabeth Lambert's ponytail pull was bad -- but is (alas, sadly) good for women's sports.

“Baseball is War,” Women's Review of Books, November/December 2009. A book review of Stolen Bases: Why American Girls Don't Play Baseball, by Jennifer Ring.

“Athlete Mom,” Huffington Post, Sept. 24, 2009.

“The Price Gap Between Men's and Women's Basketball Tickets is Madness,” Christian Science Monitor Op Ed, April 3, 2009.

“Playing With The Boys,” Huffington Post, May 29, 2008.

“Women and men in sports: separate is not equal” (Viewpoint essay), The Christian Science Monitor, January 31, 2008.

“Might Pregnancy Be A Boon to Female Athletes?” Huffington Post, November 8, 2007.

“It Takes Muscle,” The New York Times, July 30, 2006.

“Bet On It,” The Boston Globe Magazine, March 12, 2006.

“Closing the Gender Gap: Wrestler Nikki Darrow Beats Boys-And She Is Not Alone.” The Boston Globe Magazine, September 28, 2003. Cover story.

“Tag team,” Working Mother, July-August 2001. Story on parents working split shifts to cover the home front.

“The Gender Factor: In our efforts to give girls a boost in school are we creating new problems - for girls as well as boys?” Boston Globe Magazine, Nov. 9, 1997. Cover story.

other writing

“Boys and Eating Disorders.” Family Health (Reference Section), Good Housekeeping (online).

“The day our world changed,” Working Mother, November 2001. Essay/story on how September 11 changed the daily experience of parenting.

“$25 for your baby's life...,” Good Housekeeping, February 2001. Story on why some states do - and others don't - offer newborn screening that can alert parents to dangerous, but hidden conditions.

“Go Figure; Why We Put Price Tags On Things We Should Value,” The Washington Post, July 29, 2001.

“Every day I would eat less and less,” Good Housekeeping, August 2000. Story on eating disorders among teenage boys.

“Blown Away: Buffeted by the 24/7 Wired-and-Working Culture, Many Americans Feel They are Losing Their Grip.” Boston Globe Magazine, June 25, 2000. Cover story.

“Alone Together.” Boston Globe Magazine, July 26, 1998. Story on six months inside a cancer support group. Cover story.

“The New Urbanism Comes to New England.” CommonWealth, Fall 1998. Cover story.

“Our Parents' Keepers.” Boston Globe Magazine, July 6, 1997. Cover story.

“The Crusade For Civility.” Boston Globe Magazine, May 4, 1997. Cover story.

“The New Retirement.” Boston Globe Magazine, February 16, 1997. Cover story.

“Inspired Choices: What Makes People Enter The Clergy at Mid-Life?” Boston Globe Magazine, December 22, 1996. Cover story.

“The Gift.” Boston Globe Magazine, Nov. 17, 1996. Cover story. Story on 21-year-old with cystic fibrosis who receives a double-lung living donor transplant to get a shot at survival.

“They've Got Your Number.” Boston Globe Magazine, August 4, 1996. Cover story. Inside telemarketing.

“High Tech Baby Boom.” Boston Globe Magazine, May 12, 1996. Cover story. The egg donation quandary.

“The Word Factory.” The Boston Globe Magazine, January 14, 1996. Inside Merriam-Webster, the nation's largest and oldest dictionary publisher. Reprint version for The Washington Post.

“Getting From A to B.” Boston Globe Magazine, November 26, 1995. The struggle for adults who can't read.

“The Connection Gap: Why Americans Feel So Alone.” September 24, 1995. Cover story. Reprint, The Detroit Free Press, Nov. 19, 1995.

“Coming to America.” Boston Globe Magazine, July 30, 1995.

“A Nation of Sleepyheads.” Boston Globe Magazine, May 14, 1995. Cover story.

“Four Score and More.” Boston Globe Magazine, Nov. 27, 1994. Cover story.