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In 1983, The New York Times published an article that cited a passage from the "Pursuit of Excellence: Education and the Future of America" by the Rockefeller Brothers' Fund's panel, "America at Mid-Century." [3] The "excellence" movement of the mid-1980s, was inspired by the landmark report, "A Nation at Risk. [4] [5]
The New York Times celebrated fifty thousand issues on March 14, 1995, an observance that should have occurred on July 26, 1996. [267] The New York Times has reduced the physical size of its print edition while retaining its broadsheet format. The New-York Daily Times debuted at 18 inches (460 mm) across.
Dana Goldstein is an American journalist and the author of The Teacher Wars, [1] [2] [3] published by Doubleday and a New York Times best seller. [4] She is currently a domestic correspondent at The New York Times and has worked as a staff writer at The Marshall Project and as an associate editor at The Daily Beast.
Kevin Roose is an American author and journalist. He is the author of three books, and is a technology columnist and podcast host for The New York Times.He wrote a book about Liberty University, an evangelical Christian university known for strict rules imposed on students, [2] and was included on the 2015 Forbes 30 Under 30 list.
The New York Times Upfront was first published in 1999, but it arguably has roots dating back to Scholastic's earliest days. [1] The company's first high school magazine was called The Western Pennsylvania Scholastic and it evolved and changed names over the decades, becoming Scholastic Senior and Update.
That Used to be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back is a nonfiction book written by Thomas Friedman, a Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist and author, with Michael Mandelbaum, a writer and foreign policy professor at Johns Hopkins University. They published the book on September 5, 2011, in ...
He was an education writer who also served at times on the paper's editorial board, as president of The New York Times Company Foundation, and a president of Times Neediest Cases Fund (from 1977 until his retirement). [4] After retiring from the Times, Hechinger became senior adviser to the Carnegie Corporation of New York. [4]
It is the best-selling college guide in the United States, [1] although it remains significantly less well-known than rankings such as the U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges rankings. It was begun in 1982 by Edward B. Fiske [2] while he was the education editor of The New York Times, a position he held from 1974 to 1987. [3] [1] [4]