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Lucinda Rosenfeld is the author of several novels as well as stories and essays that have been published in the New York Times Magazine, the New Yorker, Creative Nonfiction, Slate.com, and Glamour, among others. In this 2012 op-ed piece from the New York Times, Rosenfeld addresses the way charter school programs are changing public schools in Brooklyn, New York, where she resides with her husband and two daughters. In contrast to typical newspaper articles, op-eds are opinion pieces and are written not by newspaper staff members but by prominent people in or beyond the community. Important words and phrases have been italicized in this reading. Look up those you do not know, and write the definitions in your personal vocabulary list.