Events & Calendars "Schooling and the Democracy Crisis"

Deborah Meier is a senior scholar at NYU’s Steinhardt School and board member of the Coalition of Essential Schools, FairTest, SOS and "Dissent" and "The Nation" magazines. She spent 45 years working in K-12 public schools in New York City (East Harlem) and Boston (Roxbury), including as a leader of several highly successful small, democratically run public urban schools: the Central Park East schools and Mission Hill. Her books include "The Power of Their Ideas and In Schools We Trust." In 1987, she was the first educator to receive a MacArthur “Genius” Award and currently blogs for "Ed Week" with different education thinkers on the big issues affecting students, teachers and schools (Bridging Differences).

This event is sponsored by the EDU, with support from the Multicultural Resource Center and the AAS.