Welcome!

You may know me as the author of Urban Teaching: The Essentials, pictured above and available at

http://store.tcpress.com/0807746436.shtml

My current responsibilities at New Jersey City University, where I teach in the Elementary and Secondary Education Department, involve coordination of the concentration in Teaching and Learning in Urban Schools, in the MA in Urban Education. For more information about this program, for experienced teachers who wish to improve their teaching, please contact me at lweiner@njcu.edu.

My research interests now focus on alterations to the global economy and work as they affect schools, teaching, and teachers unions. I've included links on this page to a few of my recent publications.

Teacher education is being transformed, globally. I analyze these developments in a forthcoming article in “Journal of Teacher Education,” presented at AACTE in February 2007. Click on the URL below:

A Lethal Threat to Teacher Education

You can hear the excellent session, with Christine Sleeter, Ken Zeichner, Rich Milner, Donna Gollnick, and Jean Anyon, audiotaped, by purchasing the CD at

http://www.aven.com/conf.cfm/cid/969

A report on the (People's) Summit of the Americans in Argentina - and how teachers unions are resisting the global assault on public education:

http://www.wpunj.edu/newpol/issue40/Weiner40.htm

Analysis of how "No Child Left Behind" reflects and reinforces changes in the global economy - to the detriment of public education:

http://www.wpunj.edu/newpol/issue38/weiner38.htm

My curriculum vita can be viewed by clicking HERE

If you want to reach me, you can always email me: LWEINER@NJCU.EDU. The office phone is (201) 200-3421. My direct line, with voice mail 24/7, is (201) 200-2000 ext. 4113.