David S. Awbrey

I am a professional journalist who has worked for newspapers around the country, mainly as an opinion writer. I have written two books, "Finding Hope in the Age of Melancholy," which deals with my struggle with mid-life depression; and "A Journalist's Education in the Classroom," which centers on a career change I made from journalism to teaching social studies in a low-income middle school in Springfield, MO., and my discovery that much of the national debate on schools has little to do with the realities of a typical classroom.