Journalism

I am a contributing editor at Teachers College’s alumni magazine, TC Today, where I help to plan and edit issues and write significant pieces on prominent professors and interesting developments. We are currently at work on the next issue, due out in late 2010.

I’m trained as a journalist and after spending two years as a reporter in Anniston, Alabama, and receiving a master’s degree from Columbia School of Journalism, I freelanced in New York City from 1991 to 1997 for a wide variety of publications including The New York Times, U.S. News & World Report, Family Fun, Family.Com, the New York Law Journal, Black Enterprise, Barnard Alumnae Magazine, Working Woman and Women’s Wire. My essays appeared in Newsday, Family Fun and Smithsonian.

Below are some of my most recent pieces.

Teachers College: The Elementary Inclusive Program

Jon Sapers posted this in Journalism on July 2nd, 2010

This is an article on one of the college’s most fundamental programs. It appeared in the Spring, 2010 issue of TC Today.

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In a bright morning in March, Colin Schumacher monitors Angelina Gonzalez’s fifth grade class at P.S. 179 in the South Bronx as it practices for an upcoming English Language Assessment test. . . . → Read More: Teachers College: The Elementary Inclusive Program

Teachers College: Outsourcing the District Office

Jon Sapers posted this in Journalism on June 23rd, 2010

This is an article about outsourcing school system management that was written for the 2009 Teachers College Annual Report. It includes discussion of the phenomenon in New York City, New Orleans and nationwide.

Download a pdf of this article: TCAnnual09_Outsourcing

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Outsourcing the District Office

Sitting in his car on a busy New Orleans . . . → Read More: Teachers College: Outsourcing the District Office

Teachers College: Funding for social programs based on results

Jon Sapers posted this in Journalism on June 23rd, 2010

This article was written for the Teachers College Annual Report. It is about how the Obama administration at the urging of experts including TC faculty, is moving towards funding organizations with proven track records on social programs such as the Nurse-Family Partnership.

Download a pdf of this story: TCAnnual09_Funding

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Funding Social Programs . . . → Read More: Teachers College: Funding for social programs based on results