GENE I. MAEROFF Senior Fellow at the Hechinger Institute on Education and the Media at Teachers College, Columbia University, USA, where he was the founding director. He is also a former national education correspondent for the
New York Times. He is the author of over a dozen books including
The Guide to Suburban Public Schools,
Team Building for School Change,
School Smart Parent,
Altered Destinies, and
A Classroom of One.