BEST EDUCATION NARRATIVE SERIES
   
  Unless otherwise noted, all files are WORD documents.
   
  Document 1 Somali Students in Minneapolis, Minneapolis Star Tribune, by Allie Shah, 6/25/00
 

Document 2 "The Factory," by Katherine Boo, The New Yorker, 11/18/04. On a charter school in Boston

  Document 3 Series on No Child Left Behind through the experience of Rayola Carwell, by Stephanie Banchero, Chicago Tribune, 7/18/04
 

Document 4

Pulitzer Prize winning series called Against All Odds, on the experiences in DC schools by Ron Suskind, Wall Street Journal, 5/26/04.  The series led to his book A Hope in the Unseen.

 

Document 5

"Expectations," by Katherine Boo, The New Yorker, January 15, 2007 about reform in Denver schools.

  Document 6
  "For Girls, It's Be Yourself and It's Be Perfect, Too," by Sara Rimer, New York Times, April 1, 2007 story on "the amazing girls" in a Newton public high school.