Administrative Positions
NEW YORK CITY BOARD OF EDUCATION, Office of the Chancellor Senior Assistant to the Chancellor for Academic Standards - January 1994-February 1995

THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, Office of Academic Affairs (1989-1992) University Director of Teacher Education - 1991-August 1992; University Director of International Education - 1991-1992; Chancellor's Academic Affairs Faculty Fellow - 1989-1991

Books and Book Chapters

• "The One-Way Window: Public Schools on the Lower East Side,"  presented at the New York University conference (1998) on "Remembering the Lower East Side," Hasia Diner, Jeffrey Shandler and Beth Wenger, eds.

• "The Teacher Crisis and Educational Standards in New York City," in Diana Ravitch & Joseph Viteritti, eds., City Schools: Lessons from New York, Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, in press.

• "Going to America, Going to School: The Immigrant-Public School Encounter in Turn-of-the-Century New York City," [reprint from American Jewish Archives, XXXVI, 2] in Jeffrey S. Gurock, ed., East European Jews in America, 1880-1920: Immigration and Adaptation. [Vol. 3 of the American Jewish Historical Society’s 8 vol. series, American Jewish History] New York: Routledge, 1997.

• "Going to America, Going to School" [reprint from American Jewish Archives, XXXVI, 2], a chapter in George E. Pozzetta, ed., Education and the Immigrant (NY & London: Garland Publishers, 1991): 60-109.

• "Tales Out of School" [reprint from Issues in Education, II, 3], a chapter in George E. Pozzetta, ed., Education and the Immigrant (NY & London: Garland Publishers, 1991): 111-129.

• Going to America, Going to School: The Jewish Immigrant - Public School Encounter in Turn-of-the-Century New York City (N.Y.: Praeger Publishers, 1986), 282 pages, index and illustrations.

• "Colombia: A Multimedia Rural Education Program," a chapter in Manzoor Ahmed and Philip H. Coombs, eds., Education for Rural Development (NY: Praeger, 1975): 1-60.

• "Colombia: A Mobile Skill Training Program for Rural Areas," a chapter in Manzoor Ahmed and Philip H. Coombs, eds., Education for Rural Development (NY: Praeger, 1975): 397-433.

• Contributing author to Attacking Rural Poverty: How Non-Formal Education Can Help. Senior authors, Philip H. Coombs and Manzoor Ahmed. (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins Press, for the World Bank, 1974).

Encyclopedia Essays

• "The Education of Jewish Girls in America," in Paula Hyman and Deborah Dash Moore, eds. Jewish Women in America: an Historical Encyclopedia. (NY: Routledge, 1997).

• Leipziger, Henry Marcus, American National Biography (N.Y. American Council of Learned Societies and Oxford University Press

• "Jewish Education" in Kenneth T. Jackson, Editor-in-chief, Encyclopedia of New York City (NY & New Haven: The New York Historical Society and Yale University Press, 1995)

• "Jewish Education in America (1654-1989)," in Jack Fischel & Sanford Pinsker, eds., The Encyclopedia of Jewish American History and Culture (NY: Garland Publishers, 1992).

Articles

• "English Comes First," New York Times, April 30, 1997, p.A 21, Op-Ed essay.

• "School Days," Eldridge Street Project News, n. 6 (Summer/Fall 1993): 3.

• "An Education for Life in Two Communities. Reflections on Arthur Goren's New York Jews and the Quest for Community," American Jewish History, V.80, n.2 (Winter 1990-1991): 164-174.

• "New York City Schools March Off to War: the Nature and Extent of Participation of the City Schools in the Great War, April 1917-June 1918," Urban Education V.24, n.2 (January 1990): 440-475.

• "The Lessons of Choice: Linking Students to Public High Schools in N.Y.C.," The Education Excellence Network, Network News & Views V. 8, n.8 (August 1989): 16-22.

• "Going to America, Going to School," a serialization in The Forward, March 29, 1985 to May 10, 1985 (seven installments).

• "Going to America, Going to School: The Immigrant-Public School Encounter in Turn-of-the-Century New York City," American Jewish Archives, XXXVI, 2 (November 1984): 86-135.

• "Tales Out of School: Reports of East European Jewish Immigrants in New York City Schools, 1893-1917," Issues in Education, Vol. 2, n. 3 (Fall 1984): 91-109.

• "In the Shadow of the 64-Room Schoolhouse: Attendance of Jewish Immigrants in the Public Schools," The Pedagogic Reporter, Vol. 35, n. 4 (October 1984): 30-33.

• "Jewish Children and Their Curriculum in Pre-War New York," Integrated Education, Vol. 21, n.1-6, (January-December 1983, published July 1984): 127-131.

• "Conducting Short-Term Research in Unfamiliar Environments," World Education Reports, Vol. 2, n. 3 (Winter 1974).

Reviews and Review Essays

• Kenneth J. Meir, Joseph Stewart, Jr., and Robert E. England, Race, Class and Education: The Politics of Second Generation Discrimination (Madison, WI: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1990), Journal of American Ethnic History, v. 12, n. 3 (Spring 1993): 85-87.

• Selma Berrol, Getting Down to Business: Baruch College in the City of New York, 1847-1987 (NY & Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1989), Educational Studies V.22, n.2 (Summer 1991): 204-208.

• Joel Perlmann. Ethnic Differences: Schooling and Social Structure Among the Irish, Italians, Jews and Blacks in an American City, 1880-1935 (Cambridge, UK and NY: Cambridge University Press. 1988), Journal of American Ethnic History Vol. 9, n. 2. (Spring 1990): 110-112.

• Walter P. Zenner. Persistence and Flexibility: Anthropological Perspectives on the American Jewish Experience (Albany: SUNY Press, 1988), Sociological Analysis, Vol. 50, n. 3 (Fall 1989): 312-313.

• Essay Review, "Jewish Higher Education and Efforts to Perpetuate Jewish Community in America," [includes reviews of Jeffrey S. Gurock, The Men and Women of Yeshiva: Higher Education, Orthodoxy, and American Judaism (NY: Columbia University Press, 1988) and Byron L. Sherwin, Contexts and Content: Higher Jewish Education in the United States: Spertus College of Judaica - A Case Study (Chicago: Spertus College of Judaica Press, 1987), History of Education Quarterly, Vol. 29, n. 2 (Summer 1989): 293-300.

• Robert A. Carlson. The Americanization Syndrome: A Quest for Conformity (NY: St. Martin's Press, 1987), Educational Studies, Vol. 20, n. 2 (Summer 1989): 159-165.

• Diane Ravitch, "The Troubled Crusade: American Education, 1945-1980," American Journal of Education, Vol. 92, n. 3 (May 1984): 355-359.

• Diane Ravitch and Ronald K. Goodenow, eds. Educating an Urban People: The New York City Experience (N.Y.: Teachers College Press, 1981), American Jewish Archives, Vol. 35, n. 2 (November 1983): 342-347.

Selected Scholarly Presentations

• Guest Speaker, Museum of the City of New York’s 3rd Annual Summer Institute for Educators (in collaboration with Teachers College, Columbia University), "An Overview of a Century of Public Schooling in New York," July 23, 1998.

• Keynote Speaker, Brooklyn High School Superintendency Retreat, "The Past as Prophesy: Searching the History of NYC’s Public Schools for Clues to their Future," March 18, 1998.

• Guest Speaker, Bar-Ilan University of Education, Ramat-Gan, Israel, April 29, 1993: "Learning to Adapt to a New Environment: Contrasting the Experiences of Eastern European Jewish Immigrants to New York City and to Palestine, 1900 to 1925."

• Guest Speaker, Eldridge Street Project, New York City, November 9, 1992: "The Schooling of Immigrant Jewish Girls on New York’s Lower East Side at the Turn of the 20th Century."

• Guest Speaker, 1990 History Teachers Institute, New York Council for the Humanities, held at Wells College, Aurora, NY, July 14, 1990: "Going to America, Going to School."

• Panelist (with Professors Diane Ravitch and Kenneth Jackson), Columbia University Encore Series, "Education in New York City," May 18, 1988.

• "Heading Back to the Books: Reconstructing a Social History of Reading," presented at the Brooklyn Reading Council -- Kappa Delta Pi Conference, "Exploring Our Heritage: Undertaking Research in the History of Reading," Brooklyn College, February 13, 1986.

• Yiddish Studies Seminar Series, the Max Weinreich Center for Advanced Jewish Studies, YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, "Comparing the Educational Goals of New York City School Leaders and of Jewish Immigrants Before 1917," November 29, 1984.

• American Jewish Congress (New York Chapter), "Ellis Island: Jews in Transit," September 9, 1984.

• Congregation Beth Sholom, Teaneck, NJ (Scholar-in-Residence), "Going to America, Going to School: The Turn-of-the-Century Encounter of Jewish Immigrants and New York City's Public Schools." Part I (April 29) "Why Did East European Jewish Immigrants Send Their Children to Public School and What Did they Experience There?" Part II (April 30) "What Did the Public Schools Seek to Teach Their Immigrant Students and How Did the Jewish Community Affect the Substance of Public Education in New York City?" April 29-30, 1983.

• Yiddish Studies Seminar Series, the Max Weinreich Center, YIVO, "Teaching America: The Instruction of Jewish Immigrants in New York City's Public Schools Before the First World War," March 9, 1983.

• Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, Cincinnati, Ohio. The American Jewish Archives Seminar Series, "Going to America, Going to School: Jewish Immigrants in the New York Public Schools, 1881-1917," January 20, 1983.

Papers Presented at Professional Meetings

• "Public Schools Encounter Religious Diversity: The Case of NYC’s Jewish Children, 1840-1860," presented at the Annual Meeting of the History of Education Society, Chicago, November 1, 1998.

• "The One-Way Window: Public Schools on the Lower East Side," presented at "Remembering the Lower East Side: American Jewish Reflections," a Conference at New York University, May 10-11, 1998.

• "The More Things Change....An Overview of a Century of Public Schooling in New York City," presented at "A Century of Public Schooling in New York City: Promises, Problems, and Prospects, 1898-1998," a Conference at New York University, April 25, 1998 [co-chairperson of conference].

• "Answering Religious Questions: Catechisms in the First American Jewish Sunday School," Annual Meeting of the History of Education Society, Philadelphia, October 24, 1997.

• "Designing an Education for Life in Two Worlds: the Founding of the Bureau of Jewish Education of New York City," The American Educational Research Association, Boston, MA, April 20, 1990.

• "Preach Americanism! the Education of Immigrants During the Great War," the American Educational Research Association, San Francisco, CA, March 28, 1989.

• "New York City Schools March Off to War: The Nature and Extent of Participation of the City Schools in the Great War (April 1917-April 1918)," the American Educational Research Association, New Orleans, LA, April 6, 1988.

• "Born in Brooklyn: The Origins of the New York City Public High School, 1890-1914," the American Educational Research Association, San Francisco, CA, April 17, 1986.

• "The 19th Century Lectures to the 20th: New York City's Adult Free Lectures Directed at Jewish Immigrants, 1889-1917," the Eighteenth Annual Duquesne University History Forum, Pittsburgh, PA, November 9, 1984.

• "Tales Out of School: Reports of East European Jewish Immigrants in New York City Schools, 1900-1917," the American Educational Research Association, New Orleans, LA., April 24, 1984.

• "Teaching America: East European Jewish Immigrants and the Public School Curriculum in Turn-of-the-Century New York City," the American Educational Research Association, Montreal, Canada, April 14, 1983.

• "Going to America, Going to School: The Immigrant Public School Encounter in Turn-of-the-Century New York City," presented at the 1982 Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New York City, March 19, 1982.

Honors and Awards

• Provost’s Research Award, Brooklyn College, Fall 1998 [course release-time to research secular and religious schooling of Jews in mid-19th c. NYC].

• Brooklyn College Provost’s Travel Grant to visit Archival Collections in Philadelphia, June 1997.

• CUNY Chancellor’s Academic Affairs Faculty Fellow, September 1989-June 1991.

• PSC-CUNY Research Award Program (2 year grant), "A War on Two Fronts: New York City School Efforts to Make the World Safe for Democracy and Immigrants Safe for America, 1917-1929." 1986-1989.

• Research Award, Lucius N. Littauer Foundation: for completion of final manuscript of Going to America, Going to School, 1985.

• Fellowship for College Teachers, of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Going to America, Going to School: The Jewish Immigrant-Public School Encounter in Turn-of-the-Century New York City, 1984-1985.

• PSC-CUNY Research Award Program. Project Title: Going to America, Going to School: The Jewish Immigrant Public School Encounter in Turn-of-the-Century New York City, 1983-1984.

• Loewenstein/Weiner Fellowship, American Jewish Archives, Cincinnati, Ohio. One month research fellowship at the Archives. Research topic: Secular and religious education of Jewish immigrants in turn-of-the-century New York, 1982-1983.