He is a former education correspondent for The New York Times and a former domestic correspondent for The Wall Street Journal. His work has appeared in The Boston Globe, Education Week, Columbia University ’s Teachers College Record, Voices in Urban Education, the quarterly produced by the Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, and other publications. He is the author of Battle Rock: The Struggle Over A One-Room School in America’s Vanishing West and is completing Remembering Richard: Immigrants and Their Quest for the American Dream. He earned his master’s degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.