Jacques Steinberg has been a staff reporter for The New York Times for more than ten years and currently is a national education correspondent. In 1998, he was awarded the grand prize of the Education Writers Association for his nine-part series on a third-grade classroom on Manhattan's Upper West Side.
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| Introduction | |
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| Left, Right, Repeat | |
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| Lance Armstrong's Not My Hero Anymore-You Are | |
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| Courageous Warrior of Love | |
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| Kids, Don't Try This at Home | |
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| Walking on Air with My Chest Puffed Up | |
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| A Bright Pink Mohawk and a Skirt | |
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| Mommy's Recess Time | |
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| A Saw Blade, Hammer, and Chisel | |
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| The Incline | |
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| This Is Going to Hurt | |
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| His Time to Fight Had Ended | |
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| Rumors of My Demise May Have Been Greatly Exaggerated | |
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| The Yorkie and the Sugar Cookie | |
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| Half of My Peers Are Dead, Half of the Others Are in Assisted Living, and Look What Fun I Have | |
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| My Kayak Angel | |
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| Talking to God | |
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| You Are an Ironman | |
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| Epilogue | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
Jacques Steinberg has been a staff reporter for The New York Times for more than ten years and currently is a national education correspondent. He lives in New York.
