A critical examination of high schools in wealthy suburbs, and the friction of increased academic competition between Asian Americans and whites.
Author Archives: Carlen
Learning in Public: Lessons for a Racially Divided America from My Daughter’s School
A journalist explores and confronts the racial divides in the schools in her gentrified neighborhood, and the role of public schools as a marker of equality in our country.
Home Boys
An honest and raw reflection of a therapist’s experience at a group home. where children come from abhorrent and unstable backgrounds.
The Eviction Lab at Princeton University
The Eviction Lab at Princeton University creates data, tools, and research to help neighbors and policymakers understand the eviction crisis.
The Monthly Bulletin: August 2023
The Non-fiction Feature: Evicted by Matthew Desmond;
The Memoir Spot: Home Boys by Seth C. Kadish;
The Product Spot: The Eviction Lab at Princeton University
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
A stark look at how important stable housing is to every aspect of our lives, and why it is out of reach for millions.
The Monthly Bulletin: July 2023
The Non-fiction Feature: Manufacturing Consent by Edward Herman & Noam Chomsky;
The Memoir Spot: We Are Bellingcat by Eliot Higgins;
The Product Spot: Fact-checking websites.
Fact-checking websites
Fact-checking websites and the critical roles they play in discerning fact from fiction.
Manufacturing Consent
How media (openly and sneakily) defends the economic, social, and political agendas of privileged groups.
We Are Bellingcat
The future of investigative journalism is ourselves–citizen-led journalism, the newest tools to analyze data, and where it goes from here.