Kai Ryssdal of American Public Media’s MarketPlace talked to Wendy Kopp, the founder of Teach for America, about her thoughts on what it will take to improve education for all in America.
If you didn’t get a chance to listen to it live, you can find it archived on the MarketPlace website.
HighBridge’s audio edition of Kopp’s new work A Chance to Make History is now available. Hear an excerpt online.
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Yesterday’s announcement of the 2011 Academy Award nominations prompted the NPR Monkey See blog to post a list of NPR stories about this year’s Best Picture nominees. From Darren Aronofsky to Mark Zuckerberg, it’s a great collection of stories worth checking out.
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Heidi Durrow, author of The Girl Who Fell From the Sky (Algonquin HC and PB; HighBridge audiobook editions) spoke at Minneapolis independent bookseller Magers and Quinn last Friday. A good crowd came out to meet this debut-author-turned-New York Times-bestselling-author.
The Girl Who Fell From the Sky has been getting much deserved acclaim. It is a Booklist Top 10 First Novels: 2010 and Editors Choice Selection; a People magazine Summer Listen; and a Washington Post Best Novels of 2010 Selection.
The Girl Who Fell From the Sky is a timely and moving bicultural coming-of-age tale, based on a true story and told by an author who has struggled with the same issues as her protagonist. You can read more and hear an excerpt here.
Although others at HighBridge had met Heidi at Workman’s BEA gathering two years ago, this was my first opportunity to meet her and speak with her in person. It was a pleasure. To see other pictures from the event see HighBridge’s Flickr Gallery.
Myself (Steve) with author Heidi Durrow
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Ah, the vagaries of technology! We’ve managed to permanently “lose” our blog history for the HighBridge LowDown.
Ah, the triumphs of technology! You can find all our old posts from the HighBridge LowDown as “Notes” on our HighBridge Audio Facebook Page.
So you can catch up with past posts by checking there, and we will start somewhat “afresh” on this rebuilt (we can do that—we have the technology) HighBridge LowDown.