Gabrielle Emanuel

Gabrielle Emanuel appears in the following:

The Plan To Give Pell Grants To Prisoners

Friday, July 31, 2015

The Obama administration unveiled a pilot program Friday morning that will once again give some prisoners access to Pell Grants, a form of federal student aid.

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Pell Grants For Prisoners: An Old Argument Revisited

Thursday, July 30, 2015

The Obama administration is expected to announce a new program Friday that would once again allow some prisoners access to federal college funding.

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A Sophisticated Version Of Guess The Grape — But Is It A Sport?

Wednesday, February 18, 2015

For a half-century, Oxford and Cambridge have competed against each other in blind wine tasting. The big match is this week.

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Tiptoeing Along A Balance Beam

Wednesday, February 11, 2015

She gazed at the picture and then asked, "What's an ugly stepsister?"

The concept just didn't translate. In Mali, polygamy is commonplace and divorce is not.

Robert McCloskey's Blueberries for Sal caused trouble too. The kids seemed unsure whether blueberries were real or the stuff of fantasy. Same with the ...

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Among Dartmouth's Lathes And Saws, Lessons In Creativity

Monday, December 01, 2014

In a woodshop on the Ivy League campus, Dudley Whitney shapes blocks of wood ... and the lives of his students.

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Channeling Springsteen: Teachers As Performers

Monday, November 17, 2014

The importance of a teacher's presence in the classroom has long been debated. Our 50 Great Teachers project asks: Does does a teacher's performance distract, or does it inspire?

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Alain Locke, Whose Ashes Were Found In University Archives, Is Buried

Monday, September 15, 2014

The author and philosopher is widely known as the father of the Harlem Renaissance. But it is not widely known that Locke, who died 60 years ago, was never buried.

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A Dozen Puffins Will Get You 800 Mackerel: Inside The Weird Economy Of Zoos

Friday, September 12, 2014

Zoos and aquariums almost never buy or sell animals. But trade is thriving.

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A Fresh Look At Flight Safety Instructions

Tuesday, September 09, 2014

Usually, the airplane boarding process feels like rote muscle memory: find seat, stow bags, sit down, fall asleep. But not this time.

I am on my way to Minneapolis and I'm not tired. So for the first time in a while, I find myself listening to the classic airplane safety ...

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One Woman's Lessons From Living On The Street

Saturday, August 30, 2014

It's hard enough being homeless, but for women there are extra dangers and challenges. One D.C. woman who has lived on the streets for decades shares some of what she's learned.

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When Innocent People Go To Prison, States Pay

Monday, June 16, 2014

Suppose you spent five years in prison for a crime you didn't commit. How much does the government owe you?

Over the past few decades, the rise of DNA exonerations has made this a more pressing question. And many states have created explicit policies to answer it.

But those policies ...

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Iraq Unravels In Violent Civil Strife

Monday, June 16, 2014

Iraq, coming apart at the seams. And the whole map of the Middle East may be in play. We’ll take a cold, hard look.

Days into the onslaught of black-clad fighters in Iraq, the news is still stunning. The map of Iraq – where the US invaded, spent billions, trillions, ...

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So You Need A Celebrity Book. Who Ya Gonna Call? Ghostwriters

Saturday, April 12, 2014

The next time you're in a bookstore, take a look at the nonfiction shelf. See all those celebrity autobiographies — the memoirs of actors, athletes and politicians? Chances are, they're the work of a ghostwriter.

David Fisher is one of those invisible authors. He's ghostwritten over 70 books, adopting the ...

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Three (Parents) Can Be A Crowd, But For Some It's A Family

Sunday, March 30, 2014

Maisie and Ella have two moms and a dad. The father was a sperm donor for the female couple, and state law allowed him to be a third parent. As families change, laws in some places are changing, too.

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Post A Survey On Mechanical Turk And Watch The Results Roll In

Wednesday, March 05, 2014

Researchers are paying people pennies to take their surveys on MechanicalTurk.com, an Amazon site. Researchers save time and survey-takers earn a few bucks.

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