Faculty and Staff

Academic Degrees

• Ph.D., Education Policy Studies/History, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, 1982
• M.S. Ed, Ed Studies/History, City University of New York, New York, New York, 1975
• A.B., History, Fordham University, Bronx, New York, 1973

Research Interest

History of American education and education policy studies, especially concerning urban schools

Recent Publications

• THE AFRICAN AMERICAN STRUGGLE FOR SECONDARY SCHOOLING, 1940-1980: CLOSING THE GRADUATION GAP (New York: Teachers College Press, Columbia University, November 2011) (with Shirley A. Hill) 264 pages
• "Suburban Advantage: Opportunity Hoarding and Secondary Attainment in the Postwar Metropolitan Northeast," AMERICAN JOURNAL OF EDUCATION, (May 2011) pp. 307-342 (Argun Saatcioglu, coauthor)
• EDUCATION AND SOCIAL CHANGE: CONTOURS IN THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN SCHOOLING (New York and London: Routledge, Fourth Edition, forthcoming 2012) Third Edition, 2009, 273 pages; Second Edition, LEA, 2005, 273 pages; First Edition, 2002, 255 pages
• "Expanding Secondary Attainment in the United States, 1940-1980: A Fixed Effects Panel Regression Model," HISTORICAL METHODS, Volume 43, No. 3, July 2010, pp. 139-152 (Argun Saatcioglu and William Skorupski, coauthors).
• RETHINKING THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN EDUCATION (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008) (edited volume, William J. Reese, coeditor) 294 pages

Courses

Related Information

• Educational Leadership and Policy Studies Courses