Author Archive for Alexandra Fenwick
Alexandra Fenwick is a multimedia journalist who has worked as a reporter in daily newspapers in New Jersey and Connecticut for four years, including one year as an education reporter. She grew up on the Jersey shore, split her high school career between public school and private boarding school and later studied writing at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. She had a happy childhood, rode her bike everywhere and rarely got detention. She is trying to replicate that experience as an adult. Her byline has appeared in the Baltimore Sun, the Los Angeles Times, the Stamford Advocate, the Tribeca Tribune and Condé Nast's Portfolio.com. She graduated from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism in May 2009 and is currently an associate editor of the Columbia Journalism Review.
Charter ‘X’
Is New Orleans losing its heritage along with its schools? Plus, play the Name Game.
The Door-to-Door Salesman
Follow along as a charter school principal makes a pitch to a one family.
Finding Zion
A clever ad campaign sells a charter school to the family of one student.
The Wisdom of the Marketplace
Charter schools have moved from fringe to mainstay in New Orleans, leaving uncertain parents a dizzying array of options. Can they really sort them out?
Competing With Jesus
Some experts say it’s Catholic schools that are in real competition with charter schools.
Charter Schools: Who Gets to Count the Money?
If a charter school looks like a charter, is run like a charter, but its finances and academic performances are overseen by a public agency, is it still a charter school?
