Dave Marcus

Dave Marcus has spoken to colleges, churches and synagogues across the country about parenting and schools. The Today Show and NPR's 'Morning Edition' have featured him. Houghton Mifflin published his nonfiction book, "What It Takes to Pull Me Through: Why Teenagers Get in Trouble, and How Four of Them Got Out." It recently came out in paperback.

Marcus shared the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting for a series about violence against women.

Dave studied at Brown University and was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. He has held positions ranging from local columnist to foreign correspondent at the Boston Globe, Miami Herald, Dallas Morning News, and US News & World Report. During a sabbatical from journalism, he was an English teacher at Deerfield Academy, one of America's top schools.

He joined Newsday in 2006 as a reporter specializing in education and youth stories.

For information, see www.DaveMarcus.com