Ed’s wife, Anne, a pubic school teacher, is a former assistant professor of Early Childhood Education at St. Joseph’s College in Brooklyn. Anne began the Pre-K program at P.S. 154 in Brooklyn's Community School District 15. She now teaches kindergarten at P.S. 154. Ed has close ties with P.S. 321, the school in District 15 that Thomas, their son, attends. P.S. 321 stresses whole language and the writing process and is an excellent barometer of how teachers, students, and parents respond to educational change.
Hard WiredMost editorial people, especially language arts folks, are not usually known as techies. Ed is. After tinkering with a Sinclair and a Commodore 64, he bought his first real computer in 1983 — a state-of-the-art IBM PC with 256K and two 360K disk drives.
He helped pioneer the use of electronic publishing at Macmillan. At Scholastic Ed found innovative ways to use desktop publishing to contain costs and maintain close creative control over product development.
His company, Ed Haggerty Associates, embraces technology as a way to work smarter and better in service to publishers.
On LineEd Haggerty is one of the early members of the on-line revolution. He joined CompuServe in 1991. Early in 1993 he opened an account with Delphi in Cambridge, MA, to get his first full Internet connection. When Ed joined Delphi, the Web browser Delphi supplied was the text-only Lynx. GUI browsers for users without dedicated, high-speed telephone lines were still over the horizon. How much has changed!
In TouchEd reads PC magazine and Macworld to track changes in technology, Wired and Hot Wired to monitor Net culture and mystique, Home Office Computing to stay on top of the small business market, and Classroom Connect to keep in touch with school use of the Internet.