Press
Articles
- The Best Thing About Orphanages Richard McKenzie, The Wall Street Journal, January 2010.
- Study Suggests Orphanages Are Not So Bad Denise Grady, The New York Times, December 2009.
- Heidi Goldsmith Ilana Yergin, Washington Jewish Week, December 2009.
- Residential Education in the U.S.: Change We DO Believe In! Maya Aguilar and Heidi Goldsmith, Children’s Web Magazine, March 2009.
- Residential Centers Can Be Ideal Heidi Goldsmith, Youth Today, June 2008.
- Hope in the Unseen Thomas Friedman, The New York Times, May 2008.
- Chicago District Ponders Residential Program for Homeless Students Catherine Gewertz, Education Week, March 2008.
- Heller Alumna Makes Policy Waves Brandeis University, Heller Alumni, May 2007.
- Oral Testimony before U.S. House of Representatives Ways and Means Subcommittee on Income Security and Family Support Heidi Goldsmith, Hearing on “Child and Family Services Improvement Act of 2006,” May 2006.
- Residential Education as Out-of-Home Placement U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Children’s Bureau Express, May 2006.
- Race, Poverty, and Residential Schools Heidi Goldsmith, Poverty and Race in America: The Emerging Agendas, 2006 , Poverty and Race, May/June 2002.
- Boarding Schools Nurture Low-Income Students Jay Matthews, The Washington Post, September 2004.
- When Parents are not in the Best Interests of the Child Mary-Lou Weisman, The Atlantic Monthly, July 1994.
- Are Boarding Schools for Abused Kids Preferable to Foster Care? Heidi Goldsmith, Insight, December 2000.
- Children in Out-of-Home Placements Joyce A. Ladner, Children’s Roundtable (The Brookings Institution), September 2000.
- What No School Can Do James Traub, The New York Times Magazine, January 2000.
- Commentary to What No School Can Do Heidi Goldsmith, The New York Times Magazine, February 2000.
- Oral Testimony before U.S House of Representatives Ways and Means Subcommittee on Human Resources (pdf) Heidi Goldsmith, Hearing on “Adoption and Other Permanent Placements,” July 1999. (pg. 13-19)
- Orphanage Revival Gains Ground Katherine Q. Seelye, The New York Times, December 1997.
- Shalom for At-Risk Youth Heidi Goldsmith, Policy Review, November/December 1996.
- Saving Children, Themselves Mary McGrory, The Washington Post, June 1995.
Books
- Growing Up in the Care of Strangers: The Experiences, Insights and Recommendations of Eleven Former Foster Kids Waln K. Brown, John R. Seita. Florida: William Gladden Foundation Press, 2009.
- Home Away from Home Richard McKenzie. New York: Encounter Books, 2009.
- The Connected Child Karyn B. Purvis, David R. Cross, Wendy Lyons Sunshine. Texas: McGraw-Hill, 2007.
- A Place to Call Home: The Amazing Success Story of Modern Orphanages Martha Randolph Carr. New York: Prometheus Books, 2007.
- Reclaiming Adolescents Chaim Peri. New York: Jay Street Publishers, 2007.
- The Home: A Memoir of Growing Up in an Orphanage Richard McKenzie. California: Dickens Press, 2006.
- Naomi’s Place Delores Wardell. California: Seven Locks Press, 2000.
- Rethinking Orphanages for the 21st Century Richard McKenzie, ed. California: SAGE Publications, 1998.