I have worked as an education writer for the last 12 years. My new book, Hope Against Hope, tells the story of the New Orleans schools after Hurricane Katrina. It will be available in February 2013.

Before starting work on the book, I was a staff writer at The Chronicle of Higher Education, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, and the New Orleans Times-Picayune. I have contributed to The Christian Science Monitor, Time, the Columbia Journalism Review, Next American City, The Daily Beast, School Administrator magazine, and several other publications.