Easter in Ordinary

This has been my week for reading Nobel laureates. Today, I read James J. Heckman 's Giving Kids a Fair Chance: A Strategy that Works . Heckman, the Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago, was a recipient of the Nobel Prize for Economic Sciences in 2000. While one might imagine complex formulas mathematical scenarios and unduly long phraseology from a Nobel Prize-winning economist writing about early-childhood interventions, in fact, Giving Kids a Fair Chance is not a difficult read. The slim volume is just 137 pages of content. The first 43 pages are from Professor Heckman, and the remainder include 10 replies to Heckman's work from various authorities, with Heckman having the concluding word. In fact, the work is eminently readable. Heckman and his respondents are passionate about children. The respondents themselves read like a who's who among people concerned about children: Mike Rose , Robin West , Charles Murra...