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Byline: Barbara Kantrowitz and Pat Wingert (Kantrowitz and Wingert are the authors of 'Is It Hot in Here? Or Is It Me? The Complete Guide to Menopause' (Workman, 2007).) Suzanne [...]

Byline: Barbara Kantrowitz For the true commitment-phobe, living among the Na people in southwestern China would be paradise. The Na are the only known society that completely shuns marriage. Instead, [...]

Byline: Andrew Romano, Peg Tyre, Barbara Kantrowitz Metropolis by Elizabeth Gaffney In this debut novel, Paris Review editor Gaffney lovingly resurrects Gilded Age New York, following a luckless German immigrant [...]

Byline: Barbara Kantrowitz In the fall of 1999, New York Times education reporter Jacques Steinberg attempted to demystify the admissions process at the nation's most selective colleges by chronicling a [...]

Byline: Barbara Kantrowitz As the country's divorce rate soared in the 1970s, social scientists began trying to understand the long-term effects on parents and children. Now, a new book about [...]

Byline: Barbara Kantrowitz Shortly after the Columbine tragedy, California author Meredith Maran decided to spend a year at Berkeley High School because she saw it as a microcosm of all [...]

Can children of divorce live happily ever after? That's the provocative question psychologist Judith Wallerstein began exploring nearly three decades ago with more than 100 kids whose parents had recently [...]

A titillating new biography explores Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis's extraordinary life and many loves after Dallas Being one of the most famous women of the century has its draw-backs even after [...]

Could this tragedy have been prevented? IT WAS A BRUTAL CRIME BY ANY STANDARD, but the setting--a Harvard dorm--made it especially shocking. On May 28, 1995, junior Sinedu Tadesse stabbed [...]

AT THE WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT'S dinner in 1998, Barbra Streisand was seated next to Pamela Harriman, the U.S. ambassador to France. Streisand asked Harriman the question surely on the minds [...]

Sizer, who has focused on secondary education in two previous books, 'Horace's Compromise' and 'Horace's School,' finds the greatest promise in grass-roots reform efforts that involve active consortiums of administrators, [...]

In new books, two veteran educators spell out very different visions for the public schools IT'S THAT TIME OF YEAR WHEN DAZED and confused parents of school-age children try to [...]