Laura PappanoLaura Pappano is an award-winning journalist who has been writing about education for more than two decades. The author of The Connection Gap (Rutgers University Press, 2001) and coauthor, with Eileen McDonagh, of Playing With the Boys: Why Separate s Not Equal in Sports (Oxford University Press, 2008), she is writer-in-residence at the Wellesley Centers for Women. Read More Read Less