Public Education Under Siege

List of Contributors

Contributors Joanne Barkan is a writer who lives in Manhattan and on Cape Cod. Her articles cover a wide array of topics, most recently the education reform movement in the United States. She is author of Visions of Emancipation: The Italian Workers Movement Since 1945 and a member of the editorial board of Dissent magazine. She also writes fiction and verse and has authored over 120 books for young readers. She has a B.A. and M.A. in French literature. Maia Cucchiara teaches in the Urban Education program at Temple University . She is author of Marketing Schools, Marketing Cities: Who Wins and Who Loses When Schools Become Urban Amenities. Ansley T. Erickson teaches history and education at Teachers College, Columbia University. She is writing a history of metropolitan educational inequality. Eugene E. Garcia is Professor of Education and Transborder Studies at Arizona State University. He has published extensively in bilingual development and English-language learner education. Eva Gold is a Senior Research Fellow and founder of Research for Action (www.researchforaction.org) and Adjunct Professor of Education at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research focuses on family and community school dynamics; she has published widely in the area of civic and community engagement in school reform. Jeffrey R. Henig is Chair of the Department of Education Policy and Social Analysis, Teachers College, Columbia University. His most recent books are Between Public and Private: Politics, Governance, and the New Portfolio Models for School Reform (co-edited with Katrina E. Bulkley and Henry M. Levin) 242 Contributors and Spin Cycle: How Research Is Used in Policy Debates: The Case of Charter Schools. Tyrone C. Howard teaches in the Division of Urban Schooling in the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies at UCLA. Best known for his scholarship on race, culture, and education, he is one of the most renowned scholars on educational equity, the African American educational experience, black males, and urban schools. Richard D. Kahlenberg, a senior fellow at The Century Foundation, is author of several books, including Tough Liberal: Albert Shanker and the Battles over Schools, Unions, Race and Democracy, and All Together Now: Creating Middle Class Schools Through Public School Choice. His chapter draws from his previous articles in New Republic, Slate, Washington Post, Education Next, and American Educator. Harvey Kantor is Chair of the Department of Education, Culture, and Society at the University of Utah. He is author of numerous publications on the politics of educational reform in the United States in the twentieth century. Michael B. Katz is Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania and Research Associate of the Population Studies Center . His books have focused on the history of public education, history of social structure and family organization, and history of poverty and welfare. In the last few years, his research has concentrated on immigration as well as on the welfare state. His most recent book is Why Don’t American Cities Burn? (published by University of Pennsylvania Press). David F. Labaree is Professor of Education at Stanford University. His latest book is Someone Has to Fail: The Zero-Sum Game of Public Schooling. Julia C. Lamber is in the Maurer School of Law of Indiana University in Bloomington. A leading scholar in employment discrimination law, she previously served as Dean for Women’s Affairs at Indiana University. Robert Lowe is Professor of Education at Marquette University. He has published numerous articles on race, class, and school in historical perspective. 9 GMT) Contributors 243 Deborah Meier has spent more than four decades in public education as a teacher, writer, and public advocate. She is currently at New York University’s Steinhardt School of Education and a board member and Director of New Ventures at Mission Hill, director and advisor to Forum for Democracy and Education, and on the board of the Coalition of Essential Schools. She is on the editorial board of Dissent, The Nation, and Harvard Education Letter. Her most recent book, with Brenda S. Engel and Beth Taylor, is Playing for Keeps: Life and Learning on a Public School Playground. Pedro Noguera is Peter L. Agnew Professor of Education at New York University . He is an urban sociologist whose scholarship and research focuses on the ways schools are influenced by social and economic conditions in the urban environment. His most recent book, with A. Wade Boykin, is Creating the Opportunity to Learn. Rema Reynolds is a postdoctoral fellow at UCLA and teaches Education at Azusa Pacific University...