1938 | Born, Houston, Texas |
1960 | B.A. from Wellesley College, Massachusetts |
1974 | Author, The Great School Wars, New York City, 1805-1873 |
1975 | Received a Delta Kappa Gamma Award for the Great School Wars: New York City, 1805-1973 |
Received a Ph.D. in history of American education, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University, New York | |
1978 | Author, The Revisionists Revised |
1979 | Member, National Academy of Education |
1980- | Director, John Dewey Foundation |
Author, The Troubled Crusade: American Education, 1945-1980 | |
Trustee, New York Public Library | |
1984 | Member, Society of American Historians |
1984-1985 | Selected as a Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar |
1985 | Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences |
Author, The Schools We Deserve | |
1986 | Awarded, Henry Allen Moe Prize in Humanities by the American Philosophical Society |
1987 | Author (with Chester E. Finn, Jr.), What Do Our 17-Year-Olds Know? |
1989 | Received the Wellesley College Alumnae Achievement Award |
Advised Teachers Solidarity and the Ministry of Education in Poland | |
1991 | Awarded a medal by the Polish Government for the work on behalf of Solidarity |
Editor, The American Reader | |
1991-1993 | Assistant Secretary of Education and Counselor to the Secretary of Education Lamar Alexander in the administration of President George H. W. Bush |
1992 | Edited (with Abigail Thernstrom), The Democracy Reader |
1993-1994 | Author, National Standards in American Education: A Citizen's Guide |
Visiting Fellow in Governmental Studies, Brookings Institution | |
1995-2005 | Held the Brown Chair in Education Studies, Brookings Institution |
1996 | Author (with Chester E. Finn, Jr.), Education Reform, 1995-1996 |
1997 | Author (with Joseph P. Viteritti), New Schools for A New Century: The Redesign of Urban Education |
Author, A Tribute to Al Shanker | |
1997-2004 | Member, National Assessment Government Board |
1998 | Received the Horace Kidger Award of the New England History Teachers Association |
2000 | Author, The American Reader: Words that Moved a Nation, and Left Back: A Century of Battles Over School Reform |
2001 | Author (with Joseph P. Viteritti), Making good Citizens: Education and Civil Society |
2002 | Elected, Eleanor Roosevelt Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences |
2003 | Author (with Joseph P. Viteritti), City Schools: Lessons from New York |
Author, The Language Police: How Pressure Groups Restrict What Students Learn | |
2004 | Author, A Consumer Guide to High History Text Books |
Author (with Chester E. Finn, Jr.), The Mad Mad World of Textbook Adoption | |
2005 | Received the John Dewey Award from the United Federation of Teachers of New York City |
Author, Brookings Papers on Education Policy | |
2006 | Author (with Michael Ravitch), The English Reader: What Every Literate Person Needs to Know |
2007 | Author (with Chester E. Finn. Jr.), Beyond the Basics: Achieving a Liberal Education for All |
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