Alissa Quart is the author of the forthcoming Republic of Outsiders: The Power of Amateurs, Dreamers and Rebels. She is also the author of Branded and Hothouse Kids.
A band of finance wizards take on the system they now say is corrupt.
Applying neuroscience to the study of literature is fashionable. But is it the best way to read a novel?
In mid-December, 2,500 teenagers walked out of their Philadelphia public
high school classrooms and into the city's intersections.


