Margaret Smith Crocco
Professional Background
Educational Background
Scholarly Interests
Diversity issues in social studies education. History of citizenship education. Technology and the social studies. Teacher education.
Curriculum
Professor Margaret Crocco and NY Times columnist Bob Herbert discuss the Teaching The Levees curriculum with WNYC radio host Brian Lehrer on Tuesday, September 18th, 2007.
To listen to the broadcast, click on the link below and scroll down to Learning from Katrina:
Professor Crocco contributes to a debate on an online New York Times forum concerned with teacher credentialing:
http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/16/education-degrees-and-teachers-pay/
Commentary
- Media Literacy and the Fog of War by Margaret Crocco and William Gaudelli
Selected Publications
Clio in the Classroom: A Guide to Teaching US Women’s History (Oxford University Press, 2009)
"Teaching The Levees:A Curriculum for Democratic Dialogue and Civic Engagement", companion volume to Spike Lee’s When the Levees Broke (Teachers College Press, 2007)
Social Studies and the Press: Keeping the Beast at Bay? (Information Age Publishers, 2005)
Learning to Teach in an Age of Accountability (Lawrence Erlbaum Associates)
"Bending the Future to Their Will": Civic Women, Social Education, and Democracy (Rowman and Littlefield).
Pedagogies of Resistance: Women Educator Activists, 1880-1960 (Teachers College Press)
"Teaching Shabanu: The Challenges of Using World Literature in the Social Studies Classroom" (Journal of Curriculum Studies)
"Dealing with Difference in the Social Studies: An Historical Perspective" (International Journal of Social Education)
"Social Studies in the New York City Public Schools: A Descriptive Study" (Journal of Curriculum and Supervision)
"The Missing Discourse on Gender and Sexuality in the Social Studies" (Theory into Practice)
"Homophobic Hallways: Is Anyone Listening?" (Theory and Research in Social Education)
"Inquiring Minds Want to Know: An Action Research Project in a New York City Classroom" (Journal of Teacher Education).
biographical information
Margaret Smith Crocco is Coordinator of the Program in Social Studies and Professor of Social Studies and Education. Professor Crocco received her bachelor's degree in philosophy from Georgetown University and her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in American Civilization from the University of Pennsylvania. She has taught American Studies at the University of Maryland, American and Women's History at Drew, Montclair State, and William Paterson Universities, and within the Texas community college system. She joined the Teachers College faculty in 1993 after having spent eight years teaching and administering at a high school in Summit, New Jersey. Professor Crocco is the recipient of numerous grants related to women's history, African American history, and inclusive curriculum. Most recently, she has served as editor and project leader for the Teaching The Levees curriculum, funded by the Rockefeller Foundation and based on Spike Lee's award-winning film, When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts.'
principal publications
| Refereed Works | |
| 2009 | Clio in the Classroom: A Guide to Teaching US Women’s
History, Carol Berkin, Margaret S. Crocco, and Barbara Winslow,
co-editors, Oxford University Press |
| 2007 |
Teaching The Levees:A Curriculum for Democratic Dialogue and Civic Engagement, companion volume to Spike Lee’s When the Levees Broke, Teachers College Press |
| 2005 |
Social Studies and the Press: Keeping the Beast at Bay? Margaret Smith Crocco, editor, Information Age |
| 2004 |
Learning to Teach in an Age of Accountability, Arthur Costigan and Margaret S. Crocco, co-authors, with Karen K. Zumwalt, Lawrence Erlbaum |
| Social
Education in the Twentieth Century: Curriculum and Context for
Citizenship, Christine Woyshner, Joseph Watras, Margaret Crocco,
co-editors, Peter Lang |
|
| 2002 |
Building a
Legacy: Women in Social Education 1784-1984, National Council for the
Social Studies Bulletin 100, co-editor, with O.L. Davis, Jr. |
| 1999 |
“Bending
the Future to Their Will”: Civic Women, Social Education and Democracy,
co-editor, with O.L. Davis, Jr., Rowman and Littlefield |
| Pedagogies of Resistance: Women Educator Activists 1880-1960, co-author, with Petra Munro and Kathleen Weiler, Teachers College Press | |
| Chapters | |
| Forthcoming |
“(How)
Do We Teach about Women of the World in Teacher Education?” for
Rethinking Curricular Knowledge on Global Societies, Binaya Subedi,
ed., Information Age. |
| “The Metaphors We Teach By,” for Social Studies and Diversity Teacher Education, Elizabeth Heilman, ed., Routledge | |
| “An epistemological and personal journey towards women’s studies,” chapter for Ginsberg book, Women’s Studies: The Evolution of a Discipline” | |
| 2007 |
“Re-imagining
Citizenship Education: Gender, Sexuality, and the Social Studies,” for
Civic Education for Diverse Citizens in Global Times: Re-thinking
Theory and Practice, Beth C. Rubin and James Giarelli, eds., (pp.
9-25), Lawrence Erlbaum |
| “Gender
Equity and Social Studies,” Invited chapter for Handbook for Achieving
Gender Equity, 2nd edition, Sue Klein, ed. Co-author with Carole Hahn,
Jane Bernard-Powers,and Christine Woyshner, Lawrence Erlbaum |
|
| “Gender
and Sexuality in the Social Studies,” Invited chapter for Handbook of
Research in Social Studies, Linda Levstik and Cynthia Tyson, eds.,
(pp.172-197), Lawrence Erlbaum |
|
| 2006 |
“Gender
and Social Education: What’s the Problem?” Invited chapter for Social
Studies: Purposes, Problems, and Possibilities, 3rd ed., E. Wayne Ross,
ed. (pp. 171-193), SUNY Press |
| “Citizenship
Education for the 21st Century,” Invited chapter for Gender and Teacher
Education: Exploring Essential Equity Questions across Subject Areas,
co-edited by David Sadker and Ellen Silber (pp.109-165), Lawrence
Erlbaum |
|
| 2005 |
“The
Invisible Hand of Theory in Social Education,” Invited chapter for
Social Studies: The Next Generation; Re-searching Social Studies in the
Postmodern, Cleo Cherryholmes, Avner Segall, and Elizabeth Heilman,
eds., Peter Lang |
| “Beauty or Beast?” in Social Studies and the Press: Keeping the Beast at Bay? Crocco, ed., (pp.3-14), Information Age Publishers |
|
| “Women
and the Social Studies: The Long Rise and Rapid Fall of Feminist
Activity in the National Council for the Social Studies,” Social
Education in the Twentieth Century: Curriculum and Context for
Citizenship, Woyshner, Watras, and Crocco, eds. Peter Lang |
|
| “Mary
G. Kelty: An Ironic Tale of Remembrance,” Invited chapter for
Explorations in Curriculum History, Lynn Burlbaw and Sherry L. Field,
eds. (pp.185-193), Information Age |
|
| 1999 |
“A
Pedagogy for Re-Envisioning America: Margaret Smith Crocco Interviews
James A.Banks,” Chapter 7 of An Introduction to Multicultural
Education, 2nd edition, James A. Banks, Allyn and Bacon |
| Articles | |
| Submitted |
“Small
Victories: Lessons Learned from a Successful Teaching American History
Grant Program,” with Stephen J. Thornton, Veronika Denes, David Glasner
and Sari Rosenberg. Under review at The History Teacher |
| “Integrating
Literacy Instruction in Science and Social Studies Classrooms:
Directions for Teacher Education,” Dolores Perin, Margaret Crocco,
Anand Marri, Jessica Riccio, Ann Rivet, and Beth Chase. Under review at
Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy |
|
| 2009 |
“At the Crossroads of the World: Women of the Middle East,” with Nadia Pervez and Meredith Katz, The Social Studies |
| 2008 |
“(Never)
Mind the Gap! Gender Equity in Social Studies Research on Technology in
the Twenty-First Century,” Multicultural Education and Technology
Journal 2(1) |
| “Teaching
The Levees: An Exercise in Democratic Dialogue,” Co-authored with
Maureen Grolnick, Journal of Educational Controversy 3 (1), an online
journal. |
|
| 2007 |
“Education
and Marginality: Race and Gender in Higher Education, 1940-1955,” with
Waite, History of Education Quarterly 47(1): 69-91. |
| “Speaking Truth to Power: Women’s Rights as Human Rights,” The Social Studies, 98(6): 257-269. |
|
| “The
Narrowing of Curriculum and Pedagogy in the Age of Accountability:
Urban Educators Speak Out,” with Costigan, Urban Education 42(6):
512-31. |
|
| 2006 |
“Caught between Invisibility and Stereotyping: Teaching the Novel Shabanu” Social Education 37(5): 178-182. |
| “Women, WebQuests, and Controversial Issues in the Social Studies” Social Education 6(3) | |
| 2005 |
“Teaching Shabanu: The
Challenges of Using World Literature in the US Social Studies
Classroom” Journal of Curriculum Studies 37(5), 561-582 |
| 2004 |
“Technology Use, Women,
and Global Studies in Social Studies Teacher Education,” Contemporary
Issues in Technology and Teacher Education 51(1) |
| “Fighting
Injustice through Education,” with Waite, History of Education (UK
publication of History of Education Society), 33 (5): 573-583. |
|
| “Technology
Use, Women, and Global Studies in Social Studies Education,” Society
for Information Technology and Teacher Education International
Conference Proceedings, Vol. 2004 (1): pp. 4773-4780 (online
proceedings). SITE 2004 Best Paper Award Winner, republished in
Contemporary Issues in Technology Education Journal in 2005. |
|
| “Dealing with Difference in the Social Studies,” The International Journal of Social Education 18(1): 106-120. |
|
| 2003 |
“A Virtual Hall of
Mirrors? Confronting the Digital Divide in Urban Social Studies Teacher
Education,” with Judith Cramer, Journal of Computing in Teacher
Education 20(4) Guest Editor with Merry Merryfield of special issue on “Women of the World,” Social Education 67(1). Same volume: Author: “Teaching about Women of South Asia: Beyond Stereotypes and Misconceptions,” with Vaishali Patel |
| 2002 |
“Inquiring Minds Want to
Know: An Action Research Project in a New York City Public School,”
First author, with Bayard Faithfull and Sherry Schwartz, Journal of
Teacher Education 54(1) |
| “Homophobic Hallways: Is Anyone Listening?” Theory and Research in Social Education 30(1) |
|
| 2001 |
“Social Studies in the
New York City Public Schools: A Descriptive Study,” with Stephen
Thornton, Journal of Curriculum and Supervision 17(3) |
| “Leveraging
Constructivist Learning in the Social Studies Classroom” Contemporary
Issues in Technology Education 1(3), an online journal,
www.citejournal.org |
|
| “(En)gendering
Multicultural Identities and Representations in Education,” with Nina
Asher, Theory and Research in Social Education 29 (1) |
|
| “The Missing Discourse on Gender and Sexuality in the Social Studies,” Theory into Practice 40(1): 65-71 |
|
| 2000 |
“Women, Citizenship, and the Social Studies,” Educational Forum 65 (1): 52-59) |
| “Looking
Beyond the Year 2000 for Women: Brave New World? Or the Next Chapter of
Patriarchy?” San Francisco State University College of Education Review
12 |
|
| 1998 |
“Teacher Education and the Study of Women from a Global Perspective,” Women’s Studies Quarterly 28 |
| “If You Make It There, You Can Make It Anywhere: Teaching Immigrant Students in New York City,” with Della Brooks and Kimberley Woo, Social Education 62 (7): 434-8 | |
| “Putting
the Actors Back on Stage: Oral History as Antidote to the Textbook,”
The Social Studies 89 (1): 19-24. Reprinted in Preparing the Next
Generation of Oral Historians, Lanman & Wendling, eds. Rowman &
Littlefield Publishers, 2008. |
|
| “Crafting a Culturally Responsive Pedagogy in an Age of Educational Standards,” Theory and Research in Social Education 26 (1) |
|
| Women
of New Jersey: Charting a Path to Full Citizenship, 1870-1920,” New
Jersey History: “Forceful Yet Forgotten: Mary Ritter Beard and the
Writing of History,” The History Teacher 31 |
|
| Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society 115 (3/4) |
|
| 1997 |
Mary
Ritter Beard and Marion Thompson Wright: Shaping Inclusive Social
Education,” Theory and Research in Social Education 25(1). Winner of
the Exemplary Research Award, NCSS: 9-33 |
| “Making Time for Women’s History ... When Your Survey Course Is Already Filled to Overflowing,” Social Education 61 (1): 32-37 |
|
| 1995 |
Guest
Editor, “Breaking the Chains: The 75th Anniversary of Women’s
Suffrage,” Social Education 59(5); Also, the lead article, “The Road to
the Vote,” and “19th Amendment: Reform or
Revolution?” with D.B. Brooks |
| “Women’s History of the 1920s: A Look at Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Anzia Yezierska,” Social Education 59 (1): 29-30 |
|
| 1978 |
“The Deviant Defining Process: From School to Psychotherapist,” Urban Education 13 (3):381-96 |
| Non-Refereed Works | |
| 2008 |
Entry on normal schools for Encyclopedia on American Women’s History, Hasia Diner, Ed. |
| 2007 |
“Allen, Elizabeth Almira,” Encyclopedia of Social and Cultural Foundations of Education |
| Book Review of “Cora Wilson Stewart and Kentucky’s Moonlight Schools,” The Journal of Southern History, vol. 73, no. 2: 488-89 |
|
| 2006 |
Book Review of Lois Weiner’s Urban Education, 2nd ed, with A. Costigan, Teachers College Press |
| Book Review of Alison Cook-Sather’s Education is Translation, for Education Review, an online journal | |
| “Teaching
about Women of the World: Lessons from Using the Novel Shabanu.”
Invited article by Walter Parker, editor of “Research into Practice”
feature of Social Education |
|
| 2005 |
“High-Stakes
Teaching: How High Stakes Testing Threatens Retention of Teachers in
New York City.” Invited essay by Beverly Falk for The New Educator 2(1) |
| 2004 |
Entry
on “History, teaching of” for [Homo]Sexualities, Education and Youth:
An Encyclopedia, James T. Sears, ed., Greenwood Press |
| Entries
on Margaret Tufts Swan Yardley and Whittier House, in Maxine N. Lurie
and Marc Mappen, eds., Encyclopedia of New Jersey, Rutgers University
Press |
|
| 2002 |
Book
review of Robert A. Pratt’s We Shall Not Be Moved: The Desegregation of
the University of Georgia, in History of Education Quarterly 44 (3) |
| 2001 |
Book
review of Betty Reardon’s work, “Peace Education: What’s Gender Got to
Do with It?” Theory and Research in Social Education 30 |
| 1999 |
Book
review of Makler and Hubbard’s Teaching for Justice in the Social
Studies Classroom, in Theory and Research in Social Education 29 (4) |
| 1998 |
Book
review of E. Wayne Ross, The Social Studies Curriculum in Ed Review, an
online journal, February 1999, with Stephen J. Thornton |
| “On and Off the Record,” Social Science Record 35 (1) |
|
| “Curriculum
Guide Published on Suffrage History and Oral History,” New Jersey
Council for the Social Studies Newsletter, June; re-published in NJHC
Newsletter 27(3) |
|
| 1997 |
Entries
on “Social Housekeeping,” “Heterodoxy,” “League of Women Voters” in
Historical Dictionary of Women’s Education, Linda Eisenmann, ed.,
Greenwood Press |
| “What Have Women Done with the Vote?” New Jersey: Women, published by New Jersey Department of Community Affairs |
|
| “New Jersey’s Women Go Public,” The Docket: Journal of the New Jersey Council of the Social Studies, Spring/Summer |
|
| Book review of James Banks’ Educating Citizens in a Multicultural Society, Multicultural Education |
|
| “On and Off the Record,” Social Science Record 34(1) |
|
| 1996 |
Editor and Consultant to Curriculum Guide for Reclaiming Lost Ground: The Struggle for Woman Suffrage in New Jersey |
| “An Interview with Professor James Banks about Multiculturalism,” Social Science Record, 33(2) |
|
| Entry in Making Connections between Multicultural and Global Education, ed. by Merry Merryfield, AACTE |
|
| “New
Jersey’s Club Women: Suffrage and Progressive Reform,” Part One, New
Jersey Historical Commission Newsletter 26 (5); Part Two, NJHC
Newsletter 26 (6) |
|
| 1994 |
Book Review of History Alive! Teachers Curriculum Institute, Social Education 60(1) |
| 1993 |
Reclaiming Lost Ground: The Struggle for Woman Suffrage in New Jersey, 2nd edition, New Jersey Historical Commission (NJHC) |
| 1988 |
Reclaiming
Lost Ground: The Struggle for Woman Suffrage in New Jersey, 1st
edition, New Jersey Council for the Humanities (NJCH)
monograph—published and distributed to teachers and historical
societies throughout New Jersey through grants from NJHC and NJCH |
| Author
and editor, Listening for All Voices: Gender Balancing the School
Curriculum, Oak Knoll School with a grant from the Primerica Foundation |
|
useful web sites
Blockbuster sites for doing social studies in American history:
- Teachers College - http://www.tc.columbia.edu
- National Archives and Records Administration - http://www.nara.gov
- American Memory - http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html
- NEH's Edsitement - http://edsitement.neh.gov
- History Matters - http://www.historymatters.gmu.edu
- Ellis Island - http://www.ellisisland.org
- Famous American Trials: Douglas O. Linder, Famous Trials
- http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/ftrials.htm
- Steven Mintz, Hypertextual History: Our Online American History Textbook
- http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/database/hyper_titles.cfm
- Lincoln/Net Abraham: Lincoln Historical Digitization Project - http://lincoln.lib.niu.edu/
- Virginia Center for Digital History - http://www.vcdh.virginia.edu
- Civil War - http://www.civilwar.com
- U.S. Civil War site - http://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war
- US Historical Data Census Browser - http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/collections/stats/histcensus/
- Archival Research Catalog - http://www.archives.gov/research/arc/
- A Chronology of U.S. Historical Documents - http://www.law.ou.edu/hist/
- The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History - http://www.gilderlehrman.org/
- Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930 - http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/immigration/
- US Government Gateway to Education - http://www.thegateway.org/
- Best of History - http://www.besthistorysites.net/index.shtml
- SCORE (California History/Social Science) - http://score.rims.k12.ca.us/
- Social Studies Organizations - http://www.indiana.edu/~ssdc/orgs.htm
- The EASE Project - http://www.easehistory.org/
- Freedom School Curriculum - http://www.educationanddemocracy.org/
- Jim Crow - http://www.jimcrowhistory.org/resources/gateway/gw_marshall.htm
- History Now - http://www.historynow.org/12_2004/index.html
- Our Documents Site - http://www.ourdocuments.gov/index.php?flash=true&
- Teaching American History Discussion Group - http://www.h-net.org/~tah/
- Popular Culture Primary Sources - http://www.authentichistory.com/
- National Park Service Lowell (MA) - http://www.nps.gov/lowe/
- New York State History - http://www.rny.nysed.gov/r/otherpeople/otherpeople_inclassroom.shtml
- Urban Simulation Team, ucla: World's Columbian Exposition of 1893
- http://www.ust.ucla.edu/ustweb/Projects/columbian_expo.htm
Federal Government Resources:
- Historic Documents - http://lib.umich.edu/govdocs/fedhis.html
- Free Federal Government Resources for Education - http://www.ed.gov/free/index.html
- ERIC Database - http://www.eric.ed.gov/
- The Smithsonian Institution:
For both US and World History-related subject matter:
- The History Place - http://www.historyplace.com
- History Central - http://www.multied.com
- History Learning Site, UK - http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/
- US Islamic Networks Group - http://www.ing.org
- U.S. Holocaust Museum - http://www.ushmm.org
US Women's History:
- U.S. Women's History Workshop - http://www.assumption.edu/WHW/
- The National Women's History Project - http://www.nwhp.org
- Godey's Lady Book - http://www.history.rochester.edu/godeys/
- Sophia Smith Collection - http://www.smith.edu/libraries/libs/ssc/curriculum/index.html
- Dublin and Sklar's Award Winning 19th century Women's History site - http://womhist.binghamton.edu/
- The American Antiquarian Society: A Woman's Work is Never Done - http://www.americanantiquarian.org/Exhibitions/Womanswork/
- Library of Congress Resources - http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/awhhtml
- Center for History and New Media (CHNM): Women in World History - http://chnm.gmu.edu/wwh/index.html
- Chicago Women's Liberation Union (CWLU) - http://www.cwluherstory.com/CWLUAbout/about.html
- DoHistory: Martha Ballard's Diary - http://dohistory.org/
- The Emma Goldman Papers - http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Goldman
- Teaching With Documents Lesson Plan: Woman Suffrage and the 19th Amendment - http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/woman-suffrage/
- The Triangle Factory Fire - http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/trianglefire/
- North American Women's Letters and Diaries (NWLD) - http://www.alexanderstreet2.com/NWLDLive/index.html
- Home Economics Archive: Research, Tradition, History (HEARTH) - http://hearth.library.cornell.edu/h/hearth/index.html
- Jo Sanders - http://www.josanders.com/flash.html
- Justice Learning: Civic Education in the Real World - http://www.justicelearning.org/viewissue.asp?issueID=13
- Women's Studies Reading Room - http://www.mith2.umd.edu/WomensStudies/ReadingRoom/History/
- Women Working, 1870-1930 - http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/ww/
- Roads from Seneca Falls - http://www.roadsfromsenecafalls.org/
- Marie Antoinette: Queen Consort of France - http://www.pimsleur-language.com/language-library/marie-antoinette-queen-consort-of-france.html
US Women's Politics:
- Emily's List - http://www.emilyslist.org
- Center for Women in American Politics - http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~cawp
- Women's Vote - http://www.aauw.org
- National Organization for Women - http://www.now.org
- Feminist Majority Online - http://www.feminist.org
- Seneca Falls Convention - http://www.legacy98.org
Civics:
- National Constitution Center - http://www.constitutioncenter.org
- The Center for Civic Education - http://www.civiced.org
- Our Documents - http://www.ourdocuments.gov
- The OYEZ Project - http://www.oyez.org
- Landmark Supreme Court Cases - http://www.landmarkcases.org
- Articles of Confederation - http://www.constitution.org/cons/usa-conf.htm
- Records of Federal Convention - http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lwfr.html, http://www.constitution.org/dfc/dfc-0000.htm
- Constitutional text and readings - http://www.usconstitution.net, http://www.archives.gov/national-archives-experience/charters/constitution.html
- Convention Delegates - http://www.archives.gov/national-archives-experience/charters/constitution_founding_fathers.html
- Federalist Papers - http://www.constitution.org/fed/federa00.htm
- Elliot's Ratifying Debates - http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lwed.html
- Papers of John Jay - http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/digital/jay/
- Early America Review - http://www.earlyamerica.com/review/
- Justice Learning - http://www.justicelearning.org/
- UCLA's National Center for History in the Schools - http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/nchs/
Congress:
- U.S. House of Representatives - http://www.house.gov
- U.S. Senate - http://www.senate.gov
- Federal Government Info Search - http://www.fedworld.gov
- Historical Records of Congress - http://www.archives.gov/legislative/research/
- Thomas (library of Congress site for House and Senate documents) - http://thomas.loc.gov "hot bills" (gives full text of legislation)
- Capitol Watch Online - http://www.capitolwatch.com
- Roll Call (magazine covering Congress) - http://www.rollcall.com
- Hill (magazine covering Congress) - http://www.hillnews.com
- Congressional News - http://www.cq.com
- Project Vote Smart - http://www.vote-smart.org
- House Democratic Caucus - http://www.dems.gov
- Hillsource (Republican Conference) - http://www.gop.gov
- Congressional Hispanic Caucus - http://www.house.gov/baca/meetjoe/cau_hisp.htm
- Congressional Asian Caucus - http://honda.house.gov/capac/
- CapWeb - http://www.capweb.net/
- C-Span - http://www.c-span.org
- Dirksen Center - http://www.congresslink.org
- Political Information Network (JFK School) - http://www.iop.harvard.edu
The Presidency and Executive Departments:
- White House Home Page - http://www.whitehouse.gov
- Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents - http://www.gpo.gov/nara/nara003.html
- White House Documents - http://clinton1.nara.gov/White_House/Publications/html/Publications.html
- Executive Office of the President - http://www.whitehouse.gov/government/eop.html
- Executive Budget - http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/fy2007/
- White House Economic Statistics - http://www.whitehouse.gov/fsbr/esbr.html
The Judiciary:
- Findlaw (text of Supreme Court cases) - http://www.findlaw.com
- Lexis (text of federal court case) - http://www.lexis.com
- Justice Department - http://www.usdoj.gov
- Federal Bureau of Investigation - http://www.fbi.gov/
- Federal Courts (some court cases posted) - http://www.uscourts.gov
- Jurist (law review articles and legal news) - http://jurist.law.pitt.edu
- Cornell University Legal Information - http://www.law.cornell.edu
- Oyez (arguments before the court) - http://www.oyez.org/oyez/frontpage
- Cornell Law Site - http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/index.html
- Metasearch of law sites - http://www.catalaw.com
Civil Rights:
- King Center - http://www.thekingcenter.com
- The Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute - http://www.chci.org
- Latino Web - http://www.latinoweb.com (undergoing renovation)
- Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund - http://www.maldef.org
- Native-American Information - http://www.indians.org
- Indian Country Today (Weekly) - http://www.indiancountry.com
Civil Liberties:
- American Civil Liberties Union - http://www.aclu.org
- Center for Individual Rights - http://www.cir-usa.org
- Freedom Forum - http://www.freedomforum.org
- Freedom Forum Media Studies - http://www.cios.org/www/freef.htm
- National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League (NARAL) - http://www.naral.org
Issue-Oriented Groups:
- Turn Left (liberal-left) - http://www.cjnetworks.com/~cubsfan/liberal.html
- Concord Coalition (center-right) - http://www.concordcoalition.org
- Town Hall (conservative) - http://www.townhall.com
- Christian Coalition (conservative) - http://www.cc.org
Political Parties:
- Republican National Committee (RNC) - http://www.rnc.org
- Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) - http://www.nrsc.org
- Republican House Committee (NRCC) - http://www.nrcc.org
- Republican State Party Links - http://www.gop.com/States/
- Democratic National Committee (DNC) - http://www.democrats.org
- Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) - http://www.dscc.org
- Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DNCC) - http://www.dccc.org
- House Democratic Caucus - http://www.dems.gov
- Democratic House Leadership - http://democraticleader.house.gov
- Democratic Leadership Council (and the Progressive Policy Institute) - http://www.dlcppi.org
- Blue Dog Coalition - http://www.house.gov/cardoza/BlueDogs/bluedogs.shtml
- Democratic State Party Links - http://www.democrats.org/local.html
- Reform Party - http://www.reformparty.org
- Green Parties of North America - http://www.greens.org
- Libertarian Party - http://www.lp.org
- Natural Law Party - http://www.natural-law.org
News Organizations:
- New York Times - http://www.nytimes.com
- Washington Post - http://www.washingtonpost.com
- National Journal - http://nationaljournal.com
- C-Span - http://www.c-span.org
- Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting - http://www.fair.org
- Crayon's News (newspapers by state) - http://www.crayon.net/using/links.html
- Newslinks - http://www.newslink.org
- Newspaper Association of America (links) - http://www.newsvoyager.com/voyager.cfm
- Wired News - http://www.wired.com/
- TV News Archive (Vanderbilt U.) - http://tvnews.vanderbilt.edu
- Annenberg Public Policy Center (U. Penn) - http://www.annenbergpublicpolicycenter.org
- Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy (JFK School) - http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/presspol
- Media Research Center - http://www.mediaresearch.org
- Reporter's Resources Web Page - http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/ksgnews/
- The Week - http://www.theweekmagazine.com/
- Harper's Weekly - http://www.harpweek.com/Default.asp
Daily Political News Briefings:
- National Journal - http://www.nationaljournal.com
- Washington Post - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/politics/administration/whbriefing/
- CNN Inside Politics - http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/grind/
- ABC News The Note - http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/
- MSNBC First Read - http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/
- Taegan Godddard's Political Wire - http://politicalwire.com/
- Center for American Progress (liberal) - http://www.americanprogress.org/
- Accuracy in Media - http://www.aim.org/
- Center for Democracy and Technology - http://www.cdt.org/
- Education Writers Association - http://www.ewa.org/
- Media Literacy and Social Studies - http://www.mediaed.org/studyguides/StrategiesForIntegratingMediaLiteracy/html
- NewzCrews - http://www.newzcrew.org/webx?98@50.dxLbaAb3dl3.0@sgd_about.html
Political Opinion and Commentary:
- Arts and Letters Daily - http://www.cybereditions.com/aldaily
- The New Republic - http://www.tnr.com/
- The National Review - http://www.nationalreview.com
- Salon - http://www.salon.com
- Slate - http://www.slate.com
- Real Clear Politics - http://www.realclearpolitics.com/
Political Blogs and Commentary:
- Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball - http://www.centerforpolitics.org/crystalball/
- Joshua Mica Marshall Talking Points - http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/
- Daily Kos - http://www.dailykos.com
- Politics 1 - http://www.politics1.com
- Archpundit - http://www.archpundit.com
- Julius Blog - http://www.juliusblog.blogspot.com
- Tom Dispatch - http://www.tomdispatch.com
- Wonkette (trash, but funny gossip) - http://wonkette.com
- Drudge Report (trashy tabloid gossip) - http://www.drudgereport.com
Public Policy Studies:
- Public Policy links - http://www.policy.com
- Humphrey Institute for Public Affairs - http://www.hhh.umn.edu
- Kennedy School (links) - http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/ksgnews/
- Heritage Foundation - http://www.heritage.org
- Cato Institute - http://www.cato.org
- American Enterprise Institute - http://www.aei.org
- Brookings Institution - http://www.brook.edu
- Center on Budget and Policy Priorities - http://www.cbpp.org
- Urban Institute - http://www.urban.org
Opinion Polls:
- The Polling Report - http://pollingreport.com
- Pew Center Polls - http://www.people-press.org
- Gallup Organization - http://poll.gallup.com
- Roper Center - http://www.ropercenter.uconn.edu
- Ipsos Poll - http://www.ipsos-na.com/news/
- NORC - http://www.norc.uchicago.edu
- Quinnipiac Polls (CT and national) - http://www.quinnipiac.edu/x271.xml
- American Research Group - http://www.americanresearchgroup.com
- Marist Institute (NY) - http://www.maristpoll.marist.edu
- Eagleton (NJ) - http://eagletonpoll.rutgers.edu
- Rasmussen (daily tracking) - http://www.rasmussenreports.com
- Keystone Poll (PA) - http://www.fandm.edu/keystonepoll.xml
Survey Research on Voting:
- Princeton Survey Research Center - http://www.princeton.edu/~psrc/
- Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (U. Michigan) - http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/index.html
- National Election Studies (NES) - http://www.electionstudies.org/
- NES Guide to Public Opinion and Electoral Behavior - http://www.electionstudies.org/nesguide/nesguide.htm
- General Social Survey (U. Mich) - http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/GSS/
- Vanishing Voter - http://www.vanishingvoter.org
- Hispanic Voter Project - http://www.jhu.edu/advanced/government/
Campaign Finance Data:
- Federal Elections Commission - http://www.fec.gov
- Center for Responsive Politics - http://www.crp.org, http://www.opensecrets.org
- Center for Public Integrity - http://www.publicintegrity.com
- Federal Elections Commission Data - http://www.tray.com/fecinfo
- Common Cause (laundering money) - http://www.commoncause.org/laundromat/
- State Election Data - http://www.followthemoney.org
- Center for Govt. Studies (state data) - http://www.cgs.org
- Campaign Finance Information Center - http://www.campaignfinance.org
- Fundrace - http://www.fundrace.org
Congressional Campagins and Elections:
- Project Vote Smart - http://www.vote-smart.org
- National Political Index - http://www.politicalindex.com
- American Presidency Project - http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/elections.php
- David Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections - http://www.uselectionatlas.org/
- Printable Maps of Presidential Elections – Department of the Interior - http://www.nationalatlas.gov/index.html
Presidential and Congressional Elections Data:
- University of Michigan Survey Data - http://www.electionstudies.org/
- Project Vote Smart - http://www.vote-smart.org/
- Ballot Access News - http://www.well.com/conf/liberty/
- Iowa Electronic Markets - http://www.biz.uiowa.edu/iem/
- Maps of popular and EC returns - http://www.lib.virginia.edu/gic/
- Wisconsin Advertising Project - http://polisci.wisc.edu/tvadvertising/
Election Procedures:
- The Green Papers (election mechanics) - http://thegreenpapers.com
- Commission on Presidential Debates - http://www.debates.org
- Electoral Vote Predictor - http://www.electoral-vote.com
- Center for Voting and Democracy - http://www.fairvote.org
- Approval Voting system - http://bcn.boulder.co.us/government/approvalvote/altvote.html
Voter Turnouts:
- Committee for Study of American Electorate - http://www.movingideas.org
- Voter Turnout and Demographics - http://www.rollcall.com/electionmap/ (subscription required)
- Federal Elections Commission - http://www.fec.gov
- Census Bureau - http://www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/voting.html
Economics:
- National Council for Economic Education - http://www.econedlink.org
Miscellaneous:
- National Public Radio - http://www.npr.org
- Metropolitan Museum of Art - http://www.metmuseum.org
- Museum of Modern Art - http://www.moma.org
- Facing the Future - http://www.facingthefuture.org
On World History and Global Studies:
- Asia for Educators - http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/
- Ancient World Cultures - http://eawc.evansville.edu/index.htm
- French Revolution - http://chnm.gmu.edu/revolution/
- The Asia Society - http://www.asiasociety.org
- UN CyberSchoolBus site - http://www.un.org/Pubs/CyberSchoolBus/
- World History for Us All - http://worldhistoryforusall.sdsu.edu/dev/default.htm
- Hyper History - http://www.hyperhistory.com/online_n2/History_n2/a.html
- Korea Society - http://www.koreasociety.org/korean_studies
- MIT's Visualizing Cultures - http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21f/21f.027j/menu/index11.html
- Japan Society - http://aboutjapan.japansociety.org/
- CV Starr Library at Columbia - http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/eastasian/
On Geography:
- National Geographic Society - http://www.nationalgeographic.com
On Politics and Economics:
- The White House Site - http://www.whitehouse.gov
- Center for American Woman and Politics at Rutgers University - http://www.cawp.rutgers.edu/
- The U.S. Census - http://www.census.gov
On Technology and Education:
- Bernie Dodge's WebQuest Site - http://webquest.sdsu.edu/
- George Lucas Educational Foundation Edutopia - http://www.edutopia.org/
- International Society for Technology in Education - http://www.iste.org/
- TechKNOW Associates Corporation: Projects and Lesson Plans - http://www.techknowassociates.com/projects/index.htm
On the Pedagogy of Teaching With Documents:
- The Digital Classroom - http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/index.html
- The Learning Page - http://memory.loc.gov/learn/
Thanks go to Dr. Steven Mintz for this enormously useful and comprehensive list of websites, which he has shared with me and many others in the NYC history community.
- Images of American Political History - http://teachpol.tcnj.edu/amer_pol_hist/index.htm
- The Artful Presidency - Smithsonian Institution - http://www.aaa.si.edu/exhibits/pastexhibits/presidents/presidents.htm
- Portraits of the Presidents and First Ladies – Library of Congress - http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/odmdhtml/preshome.html
- Political Graveyard - http://politicalgraveyard.com/index.html
- Miller Center for Public Affairs - http://www.millercenter.virginia.edu/academic/americanpresident
- America Votes: Presidential Campaign Memorabilia from Duke Special Collections - http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/americavotes/
- Political Americana Collection – Cornell University - http://cidc.library.cornell.edu/political/
- A Brief History of Campaign Songs – Time Magazine - http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1840981_1840998,00.html
- Campaign Songs, 1840-1860 - http://lincoln.lib.niu.edu/sound.html
Data Relating to the Presidency
- American Presidency Project - http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/data.php
- A House Divided: America in the Age of Lincoln - http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/ahd/index.html
- America's Reconstruction - http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/reconstruction/index.html
- Miller Center for Public Affairs - http://www.millercenter.virginia.edu/index.php/academic/oralhistory/index
- Harper's Weekly - http://elections.harpweek.com/
- 1896 Election – Vassar College - http://projects.vassar.edu/1896/1896home.html
- National Archives Podcasts - http://www.archives.gov/presidential-libraries/research/podcasts.html
- PBS American Presidency Podcasts - http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/presidents/podcasts.html
- Living Room Candidate: Presidential Campaign Commercials 1952-2008 - http://www.livingroomcandidate.org/
- American Presidency Project - http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/platforms.php
- American Experience: the Presidency: Franklin Roosevelt to George H.W. Bush - http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/presidents/
- The American Presidency: A Glorious Burden - http://americanhistory.si.edu/presidency/home.html
- Presidential Popularity Over Time – Miller Center for Public Affairs - http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/data/popularity.php
- American Presidency Project - http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/debates.php
- American Presidency Project - http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/libraries.php
- American Presidency Project - http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/index_docs.php
- American Presidency Project Audio/Visual Archive - http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/media.php
- Congressional Globe - http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lwcglink.html
- Presidential Recordings Project – Miller Center for Public Affairs - http://www.millercenter.virginia.edu/index.php/academic/presidentialrecordings/
- Presidential Speech Archive - Miller Center of Public Affairs - http://millercenter.org/scripps/archive/speeches
- U.S. Presidents of the 20th Century , Vincent Voice Library, Michigan State University - http://www.lib.msu.edu/vincent/presidents/index.htm
- By Popular Demand: "Votes for Women" Suffrage Pictures, 1850-1920 - http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/vfwhtml/vfwhome.html
- Motherhood: Social Service, and Political Reform: Political Culture and Imagery of American Woman Suffrage - http://www.nwhm.org/exhibits/intro.html
- PBS: Not For Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony - http://www.pbs.org/stantonanthony/
- Scholastic - http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/suffrage/
- Suffrage Songs and Verses by Charlotte Perkins Gilman - http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/gilman/suffrage/suffrage.html
- Timeline of Women’s Suffrage - http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/naw/nawstime.html
- Votes For Women Selections from the National American Woman Suffrage Association - http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/naw/nawshome.html
- The Disputed 1876 Presidential Election: Presidential Elections and the Electoral College: The Proceedings of the Electoral Commission of 1877 - http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lwec.html
- U.S. Electoral College – National Archives - http://www.archives.gov/federal_register/electoral_college/electoral_college.html
- National First Ladies Library - http://www.firstladies.org/index.htm
- The First Ladies of the United States – White House - http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/firstladies/index.html
- Impeachment Documents Relating to a U.S. President – Auburn University - http://www.lib.auburn.edu/madd/docs/impeach.html
- I Do Solemnly Swear – Library of Congress - http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/inaugural-home.html
- The Founders’ Constitution - http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/
professional presentations
grants
2008 “Teaching The Levees” curriculum wins award for outstanding curriculum from Association of Teachers of Social Studies, New York City UFT
Consultant for Curriculum Project related to the award winning film Revolution 67
2007 Khemka Foundation (India) Award for Leadership Curriculum, $750,000 (participant)
2006 "Teaching The Levees Project," Rockefeller Foundation, $975,000;
Selected for Japan Study Tour for Teacher Educators, Japan Society, NYC; Partner with NYC social studies team on city-wide Teaching American History Grant, "Content and Continuity," Funded for just under $2 million to US DOE.
2005 Consultant to "We the People" Teaching American History Grant with Regional Instructional Center 10, $999,000. "Enhancing Teacher Preparation for Adolescent Literacy through Interdisciplinary Learning Communities" with Professors Perin, Calabrese-Barton, Rivet, Marri, and Dr. Doug Wood of the National Academy for Excellence in Teaching, $100,000 by Carnegie Corporation
2004 Contributed to development of President Arthur Levine's Freeman Foundation grant for $98,600 to underwrite conference on teaching about East Asia in US colleges of teacher education Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education "Best Paper Award" for "Technology Use, Women, and Global Studies in Social Studies Education," with Judith Cramer Partner with Region 10 New York City Board of Education in Teaching American History Grant on Foundations of Democracy, $969, 903.
2003 One-year partner in Teaching American History grant with Community School District 23, Ocean Hill-Brownsville, $875, 000
2002 Partner in Teaching American History grant with Manhattan Superintendencies, $998,000. Served as paid consultant to NEH Grant (funded at $10,000) on 9/11 to Columbia University Oral History Research Office. Member of Steering Committee for Women's Project of New Jersey, awarded $20, 000 grant from the New Jersey Historical Commission to expand website on New Jersey women. One of 4 historical researchers and curriculum developers of new material for expanded website. This website won "Certificate of Commendation" from the American Association for State and Local History in 2004.
service to the college and university
| 2007-08 |
CEO&I Ad Hoc Committee |
| 2006-07 |
Co-chair President Susan H. Fuhrman’s Inauguration Committee |
| 2006 |
One of five elected faculty representatives to TC Presidential Search Committee |
| Chair of Search Committee for professorial position in Program in Social Studies; |
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| Search Committee for Associate Director of Campaign for Educational Equity | |
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2005- 2008 2005-2006 2003-2005 |
Elected representative to Standing Committee on Tenure Presidential Search Committee; Standing Committee on Tenure; Middle States Steering Committee FEC Chair; Search Committee: Financial Aid Director; Human Resources Director |
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2002-2004 |
Faculty Executive Committee representative of the Department of Arts and Humanities |
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2003 |
Dissertation Sponsor: Margaret Holland (International Education) and Julie Altman (History and Education); Committee: Mary Ann Cappiello (Curriculum and Teaching), Benjamin Jacobs, Andrea Libresco (Social Studies); Beverly Lee Bisland (Social Studies); Anthony Mbogho (Art Education) |
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2002 |
Dissertation Sponsor: Jill Jupiter-Jones; Committee: Carol Harrison-Wong (Social Studies) |
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History and Education Search Committee |
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Teacher Education Policy Committee; Space Committee; Sexual Harassment Committee |
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2001 |
Dissertation Examiner: Jessica Zirkel Rubin (Instructional Technology) |
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Committee: Gayle Kalisman (Art and Education) |
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Sponsor: Masako Hamada (International Education) |
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2000 |
History and Education Search Committee; Search Committee for Director of Oral History Research Office, Columbia University |
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Dissertation Examiner: Nicole Vartanian (Sociology) |
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Supervisor of Student Teachers |
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Committee for Dean's Grants for Student Research |
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1999 |
Science Education Search Committee |
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Dissertation Sponsor: Sherry Schwartz (Social Studies); Dissertation Examiner: Randi Dickson (English); Karen Hornick (English, Columbia); Dissertation Committee: Mikki Shaw (English); Kozue Akibayashi (IED); Shyrl Matias (IED) |
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Supervisor of Student Teachers |
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Faculty Search Committee for 2 positions in TESOL |
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Faculty Colloquium presentation for students on my research |
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1998 |
Dissertation Sponsor: Kimberley Woo (Social Studies); Dissertation Examiner: Carol Aiken (Music); Donna Tumin (Art); Wairimu Kiambuthi (IED); Ellen Salzman Fiske (History and Education) |
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1998 - 2000 |
Two year term on Faculty Advisory Committee |
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Columbia University's Commission on Status of Women |
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1998 - 2001 |
Member of Institutional Review Board |
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Teacher Education Policy Committee; Library Committee |
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1998 |
Presentation to Faculty of Morris High School, Bronx, NY, for Center for Educational Innovation and Outreach, Teachers College |
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1997 |
Dissertation Examiner: Heasun Kim (Music Education); Dissertation Committee: Carol Harrison-Wong (Social Studies) and Dissertation Examiner: Julie Kenyon (English) |
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1996 |
Presentation for "Our Mutual Estate" Conference, English Education |
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Dissertation Examiner: Ziad Malave (Art), Jill Crosby (Dance), Li-chen Hwang (Music Education) |
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1993 |
Dissertation Examiner: Natalie Schifano (Art); Dissertation Committee: Patricia Thevenet (Social Studies) |
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service and work outside nyc
| 2008 |
Elected to Social Science Education Consortium Board of Directors |
| Named to Advisory Board for international Breakthrough TV NGO |
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| 2007-08 |
Editorial Board, The Social
Studies; Editorial Advisory Board, National Women’s Studies Association
Journal and for the “About Japan” website at The Japan Society; |
| Reviewed manuscripts for Teaching and Teacher Education and American Educational Research Journal |
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| 2006 |
Archives Work with National
Council for the Social Studies; Review of conference proposals for
NCSS; Reviewer for Teaching and Teacher Education; American Educational
Research Journal |
| 2005 |
Invited by Mary Marshall
Clark, Director of Columbia University Oral History Research Office to
serve on Advisory Board chaired by Eric Foner |
| “Roads
from Seneca Falls” National Advisory Board, a joint project of SUNY,
Oswego, and Syracuse University on the promotion of women’s history
website |
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| Reviewer
for Oral History Review; Theory and Research in Social Education; NCSS
journals; Book reviewer for Educational Policy Analysis Archives and
Journal of Southern History |
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| Invited
by NCSS President Jeff Passe to serve on NCSS Task Force on Diversity;
Invited by CUFA Chair Keith Barton to serve on Committee for review of
NCSS curriculum standards |
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| Scholars and Advocates for Gender Equity: Chair of subcommittee on new award in field of gender equity Consultant in preparation of NYCDOE Region 10 Teaching |
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| American History grant for elementary school teachers Reviewer for Journal of Curriculum Studies; Teaching and Teacher Education; NCSS journals; Theory and Research for Social Education; Oral History Review, Taylor and Francis and Lawrence Erlbaum book manuscript proposals. |
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| 2004-05 |
Consultant to Peck School, Morristown, NJ, on social studies curriculum |
| Co-chair
of Program for AERA Committee, Scholars and Advocates of Gender Equity
(SAGE), the major committee devoted to the subject of gender equity,
and part of AERA’s Social Justice Action Committee |
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| Advisory Board to Marymount College/Fordham University’s Ford Foundation Gender Equity Grant (to 2006) |
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| 2003-2004 | Editorial Board, Theory and Research in Social Education AERA, Scholars and Advocates of Gender Equity (SAGE) Committee Member NCSS, Vice-Chair of Archives Committee |
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2000 - 2001 |
Chair of College and University Faculty Assembly |
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2000 - 2002 |
Member, The Women's Project of NJ |
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Consultant, Westport, CT Social Studies Curriculum Committee |
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2000 - present |
Grants reviewer and consultant, New Jersey Historical Commission; member of State of New Jersey's "Women's Heritage Trail Advisory Oversight Committee" |
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2000 - 2003 |
Executive Board of College and University Faculty Assembly (NCSS) |
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1999 to present |
Reviewer of articles for Theory and Research in Social Education, The History Teacher, Journal of Curriculum and Supervision, American Educational Research Journal, Teaching and Teacher Education; book proposals for Teachers College Press, Heinemann Press, Houghton Mifflin; External reviewer for tenure decisions nationwide in social studies. |
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1996 to 1999 |
Co-Editor of Social Science Record, journal of the New York State Council for the Social Studies; NCATE Board of Examiners |
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1997 to present |
Reviewer of program proposals, NCSS: College and University Faculty Association; |
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1995 - 1998 |
Board Member, Morris County Cultural Heritage Commission |
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1995 |
Consultant to Middlesex County Cultural and Heritage Commission |
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1994 to 1995 |
Delbarton School (Morristown, NJ) Curriculum Committee |
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1995 to 1996 |
President, Parent Associations of New Jersey Independent Schools and Co-Chair of Annual Symposium (1995) |
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1988 |
Founder and Chair, NJ Council for Women in Independent Schools |
active professional organizations
Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development
American Historical Association
American Studies Association
History of Education Society
National Council for the Social Studies/New Jersey Council for the Social Studies
National Society for the Study of Education
Organization of American Historians
Social Science Education Consortium
A&HW 4040: Women of the world: Issues in teaching
Womens lives viewed through history, geography, literature, human rights, demography, and economics provide the subject matter. Reconceptualizing the school curriculum is a dominant theme. Satisfies the New York State requirement for world history and geography.
A&HW 4903: Research and independent study in social studies
Permission of instructor required. To be taken under the direction of a faculty member. Students work individually or with others.
A&HW 5031: Teacher Education in Social Studies
Problems, issues, and new directions in teacher education in social studies.
A&HW 5037: Advanced methods of social studies curriculum
Examination of alternatives to conventional curricular arrangements in social studies, including attention to oral history, interdisciplinary strategies and service learning.
A&HW 5223: Oral history as a multidisciplinary teaching tool
Students will learn the steps of oral history design for the classroom, including research, selection of interviewees, conduct of the interview, transcribing, reviewing, and editing.
A&HW 5503: Research paper in Social Studies
Required for doctoral students in fourth semester of doctoral seminar.
A&HW 5530: History of American social thought
History of American social thought as it has influenced and been influenced by theories of education and patterns of educational practice.
A&HW 5931: Guided investigations in the teaching of social studies
Permission of instructor required. For advanced students. Individual fieldwork in secondary school or introductory college social studies.
A&HW 6030: Research in social studies education
Permission of instructor required. Individual fieldwork in secondary school or introductory college social studies.
A&HW 6203: Advanced fieldwork in social studies
Permission of instructor required. See description for A&HW 5203.
A&HW 6503: Doctoral seminar in Social Studies
Seminar focused on doctoral student research and contemporary social studies issues. Beginning doctoral students take the seminar for four consecutive semesters.
A&HW 6935: Studies in history and in the teaching of history and social studies
Permission of instructor required. Individual research and advanced historical method ordinarily related to a doctoral dissertation.
A&HW 7503: Dissertation seminar in social studies
The purpose of the dissertation seminar is to develop and refine specific topics for dissertation research. Students should enroll in the dissertation seminar beginning only in the semester in which they intend to present their dissertation proposal for departmental review.
A&HW 8903: Dissertation advisement in social studies
Individual advisement on doctoral dissertation. Fee to equal 3 points at current tuition rate for each term. See catalog section on continuous registration for Ed.D./Ph.D. degrees.
Documents & Papers
Download: Building a Legacy: Women in Social Education 1784-1984 [PDF]
Download: Dealing with Difference in Social Studies [PDF]
Download: "Forceful Yet Forgotten: Mary Ritter Beard and the Writing of History", The History Teacher 31(1) [PDF]
Download: Leveraging Constructivist Learning [PDF]
Download: “Making Time For Women’s History ... When Your Survey Course Is Already Filled to Overflowing,” Social Education 61(1) [Word]
Download: The Missing Discourse on Gender and Sexuality in the Social Studies, Theory into Practice 40 (1) [PDF]
Download: High Stakes Teaching [PDF]
Download: Book review of Robert A. Pratt’s The Desegregation of the University of Georgia, in History of Education Quarterly 44(3) [Word]
Download: “Social Studies in the New York City Public Schools: A Descriptive Study,” with Stephen Thornton, Journal of Curriculum and Supervision 17(3) [PDF]
Download: Teaching Shabanu [PDF]
Download: Technology Use, Women & Global Studies [PDF]
Download: 19thAmendment_Reform or Revolution
Download: Women, Citizenship, and the Social Studies, Educational Forum 65(1) [Word]




