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Jacques Steinberg has been a staff reporter for The New York Times for more than a decade. He has served as a national education correspondent for the paper since the summer of 1999, and, for the four years prior to that, he covered the city's public school system and its chancellor, Rudy Crew. He spent much of the 1996-1997 school year inside a third-grade classroom on West 96th Street in Manhattan, writing an occasional series about the children's efforts to learn to read.
The Education Writers Association honored Mr. Steinberg's reading series with its top award, The Fred M. Hechinger Grand Prize for Distinguished Education Reporting, in 1998.
He has also written broad national stories about school vouchers in Cleveland; affirmative action at the University of Michigan; bilingual education in California; the nation's teachers' and principals' shortages; the enormous new pressures on sixth graders; the for-profit school operator Edison Inc., and the issue of education on the campaign trail.
Mr. Steinberg joined The New York Times in 1988 as a researcher to James (Scotty) Reston, the paper's long-time Washington columnist, assisting him in the compilation of his memoirs.
He later moved to New York and joined the paper's Metropolitan Desk as a reporter and has covered a variety of beats, including the cities and towns of Westchester County and upstate New York, from which he reported from 1993 to 1995.
Mr. Steinberg, who attended public schools in Somerset, Mass., is a graduate of Dartmouth College. He lives in New York City with his wife, Sharon Weinstock, a lawyer, and two young children.
The Gatekeepers is his first book.
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