As might be expected of someone working toward a Ph.D. in neuroscience at Stanford School of Medicine, Jocelyn Ricard has impressive credentials. This story also appeared in MinnPost and The Nation There are scholarships — Knight-Hennessy and, last year, a Ford Foundation Fellowship — and publications in journals like Nature Neuroscience and The Lancet Psychiatry. […]
Laura Pappano
Laura Pappano is an education journalist who also writes about gender and sport. A former education columnist for The Boston Globe, she has been a regular contributor to The New York Times education section and ¸£Àû¼§ÊÓƵ. Her stories have also appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Boston Globe Magazine, The Washington Post, and other publications. Pappano is founder of the New Haven Student Journalism Project, which helps students in grades 3-8 produce a real newspaper in print and online, and is writer-in-residence at the Wellesley Centers for Women. She has a bachelor’s degree from Yale. Laura's most recent book is School Moms: Parent Activism, Partisan Politics and the Battle for Public Education, which was published by Beacon Press in January 2024.
