Attention all Parents: Mark your calendar....College Speaker Night...Monday, January 30th, 7:30 pm at Garden City High School. The PTA is sponsoring an important presentation by guest speaker, Jacques Steinberg, Senior Editor for The New York Times and author of the Times best-seller, “The Gatekeepers: Inside the Admissions Process of a Premier College” Mr. Steinberg will give an hour-long presentation regarding the college admission process, followed by a question and answer session. The Garden City High School Guidance Department will join Mr. Steinberg to answer questions from the audience. Parents and students are encouraged to attend this highly informative and dynamic presentation.
Below, Mr. Steinberg’s bio from the New York Times reveals his impressive background and extensive experience as an author and journalist regarding education and the college admissions process.
January 2012
The New York Times
Jacques Steinberg – Senior Editor
Jacques Steinberg is a senior editor who leads The Times’s Choice blog on college admissions, which he launched in spring 2009 as a means of demystifying and explaining the often tumultuous process of applying to American universities. He also oversees The Learning Network, a blog that prepares lesson plans and other materials for teachers and students using Times content. A longtime education correspondent for the The Times, he joined the paper nearly a quarter century ago.
Mr. Steinberg’s first book, “The Gatekeepers: Inside the Admissions Process of a Premier College” (Viking Press 2002), was a Times best-seller that was based on a series he wrote for The Times set inside the deliberations of Wesleyan University in Connecticut. Earlier, he spent much of the 1996–97 school year inside a third-grade classroom to chronicle one teacher’s efforts to get his students to learn to read, That series was honored by the Education Writers Association with its top award, The Fred M. Hechinger Grand Prize for Distinguished Education Reporting.
Mr. Steinberg’s second book, “You are an Ironman: How Six Weekend Warriors Chased Their Dream of Finishing the World’s Toughest Triathlon,” was published in hardcover by Viking in fall 2011, and will appear in paperback in summer 2012.
Previously, for six years, Mr. Steinberg was a media reporter for The Times chronicling the most hair-raising period in the history of network television news: he wrote about the passing of the NBC anchor chair to Brian Williams from Tom Brokaw; the death of Peter Jennings, and the protracted effort to replace him; and Dan Rather’s rocky departure from CBS News, and the bolting of Katie Couric from NBC to CBS to succeed him. He has also written profiles of Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert; Mike Wallace and Barbara Walters, and Ellen DeGeneres and Craig Ferguson. In spring 2003, he was assigned by The Times to write about one of the most painful episodes in its history: the fabrications and plagiarism of a rogue reporter, Jayson Blair.
Mr. Steinberg joined The 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.
Mr. Steinberg attended public schools in Somerset, Massachusetts, and went on to study at Dartmouth College, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in history, in June 1988. Mr. Steinberg lives outside New York City with his wife and two school-age children.