Lois Weiner, Ed.D.
130 Jane Street, #5G
New York, N.Y. 10014
(212) 229-1908
Email: lweiner@njcu.eduProfessor,
Elementary and Secondary Education
New Jersey City University
2039 Kennedy Blvd.
Jersey City, New Jersey 07305
EDUCATION
Harvard
University Graduate School of Education Cambridge,
MA
Ed.D. Department of Teaching, Curriculum
and
Learning Environments, September 1988-March 1991.
Dissertation topic: “Perspectives on
preparing teachers of at-risk students in urban schools, 1960-1990”
Columbia
University, Teachers College
New York, NY
M.A.,
Teaching of English, 1978-1979
Awarded Professional Development Award-
full tuition
California
State University, Hayward
Hayward, CA
Teaching preparation, honors, 1973
University of
California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA
B.A., Journalism; minor-social movements,
honors, 1970
Graduate study: Bay Area Writing Project,
Summer 1976
Awarded Zellerbach fellowship - full
tuition
University of
Stockholm Stockholm, Sweden
Study in political science, Swedish
language
1968-1969
RESEARCH
INTERESTS
Impact of urban
school characteristics on teachers’ classroom practice
How race, class,
and gender mediate academic achievement
Teachers’ work and
the school as a workplace
Effects of changes
in global political economy on teaching, teachers, and schools
PROFESSIONAL
EXPERIENCE - POST SECONDARY
New Jersey City
University, College of Education
Professor
Teach courses in urban education
Fall
1990 to Spring 1996; Spring 1998 to present
City University of New York, College of
Staten Island
Department
of Education
Associate
Professor - Visiting
Taught
English methods, issues in urban education, supervised student teachers
January
1996 - January 1998
Harvard University Graduate School of Education
University
Supervisor
Supervised
student teachers in Boston Public Schools
Spring
1989
Consultant, Harvard’s Teaching and
Curriculum Program
Designed
and executed research on problems of Harvard's student teachers in urban
schools
Spring
1989
California State University, Hayward
Director
and instructor, Women in Education Conference
Co-sponsored
with Hayward Unified School District and local teacher organizations
Spring
1977
TEACHING EXPERIENCE - SECONDARY
New York City Board of Education New York, NY
High
School for the Humanities
Teacher,
English department
Awarded
Impact Dissemination Grant
Named
to Ford Foundation project to coordinate curricula for ninth grade English
classes in Manhattan
1986-1990
Martin
Luther King High School
Teacher and assistant department head,
English department
1982-1986
Julia
Richman High School
Teacher, reading and writing skills
1981-1982
Malverne
Unified Schools Malverne, NY
Malverne
High School
Developer
and instructor, remedial writing laboratory
1980-1981
Bedford Unified School District Bedford, NY
Fox
Lane Campus
Teacher,
English department
Designed
programs for gifted students, Westchester BOCES
1979-1980
Hayward Unified School District
Hayward, CA
Mount
Eden High School
Chair
and teacher, English department
Served
as liaison to the Bay Area Writing Project and University of California to
improve writing instruction
Developed bilingual and ESL courses to
comply with Lau decision mandates
1973-1978
PUBLICATIONS
Books
Urban Teaching: Th e Essentials New
edition, forthcoming Sept. 2005. (New York: Teachers College Press.)
Urban Education in the U.S.,2001 .A web-based anthology of readings.
(http://www.XanEdu.com)
Urban Teaching: The Essentials, 1999 (New York: Teachers College Press).
Preparing Teachers for Urban
Schools.Lessons from Thirty Years of School
Reform, 1993 (New York:
Teachers College Press).
Winner
of AERA, Division K Award for Research and Scholarship, 1993
Book Chapters
"Tensions of ‘Women Working with
Women’ in Urban Teacher Education" in Critical Perspectives on
Democratic Urban Education, Patrick Solomon, ed., Lawrence Erlbaum (in
press).
"Preparing Urban Teachers To Be Change
Agents: A Critical Analysis," in From Nihilism to Possibility:
Democratic Transformations for Inner City Education, Barry Kanpol and Fred
Yeo, eds., Hampton Press (1999).
"Schooling and Work: Developing a
Progressive Agenda for Reform," Post Work. The Wages of
Cybernation, Stanley Aronowitz and
Jonathan Cutler, eds., Routledge (1997).
“Diminished Discourse and Impoverished
Schools: Urban Legacies of the 'Excellence' Reforms," in Developing Strategies for Excellence in
Urban Education, Godwin Ohiwerei, ed., Nova Science (1996).
Topic: Educational Policy
“Why we ‘Profess’ Rather than ‘Teach:
Implications of the Gendered Construction of Work in the Global Economy,” Workplace. An online journal of
Academic Labor, June 2005, online only at http://www.cust.educ.ubc.ca/workplace/issue6p2/weiner.html.
“A Progressive Response to ‘No Child Left
Behind’” New Politics, March 2005, print and online at http://www.newpol.org.
“Research or ‘Cheerleading’? Scholarship on
CSD 2 in New York City,” Educational Policy
Analysis
Archives, 11(27) online only at http://epaa.asu.edu/epaa/v11n27/
“The Newark Teacher Strikes,” New
Politics, Winter 2003, print and online at http://www.newpol.org.
“Nitpicking: An Exploration of the Reasons
Gender Equity Is Marginal in Research and Reform of Urban Education,” The
Urban Review,December 2002
“Systemic Reform’s ‘Learning by All’:Who’s
Assessing Learning of Researchers and Policy Analysts?” Educational Policy,
May 2002
“Illuminating the Multiple Linkages between
State Educational Policy to Improve Schools and
Curriculum and Instruction in a Program of
Urban Teacher Preparation,” Educational
Policy,
November 2001
“Work, Poverty, and Schooling: What are the
connections? Essay review of Workers in a Lean World, by Kim Moody
(Verso, 1997). Educational Foundations- Special issue on poverty and schooling,
Spring 2001
“Democracy,Pluralism, and Schooling: A
Progressive Agenda,” Educational Studies, Fall 2000
“Albert Shanker’s Legacy,” Contemporary
Education , Summer 1998
"Teachers, Unions, and School Reform:
Examining Margaret Haley's Vision," Educational
Foundations,
Summer 1996
Review of Teachers and Crisis: Urban
School Reform and Teachers Work Culture, in Educational
Studies,
Summer, 1994
Topic: Urban Teacher Education
“Why Is Classroom Management So Vexing for
Urban Teachers?” Theory Into Practice, November 2003.
Book Review in Educational Researcher,
December 2002.
“Evidence and Inquiry in Teacher
Education,” Journal of Teacher Education, May/June 2002.
“Research in the 90s: Implications for
Urban Teacher Preparation,” Review of Educational Research ( Fall 2000).
"How the Urban Setting Affects Student
Teachers' Motivations for Choosing Teaching as a Career,"The Urban Review (March 1995), co-author.
"One Teacher's View: Thirty Years of
Research on Preparing Urban Teachers," New Schools/New
Communities,
Spring 1995
"Preparing the Brightest for Urban
Schools," Urban Education,
October, 1990
"An Analytic Framework for Reform of
Urban Teacher Preparation," The
Urban Review, Fall, 1989
"Why High-Achieving Students Choose to
Teach: Policy Makers Take Note," The High School
Journal,
October, 1989
Topic: English Education
“Insights for Interns - Teaching English in
the City,” English Journal,
May 1999
"James Moffett's Legacy," California
English, Winter 1997
"Two Formulas for Creating
Lessons," English Journal, (March 1997).
"Democracy, Pluralism, and English
Education," English Education, May 1995
"Warning: Textbooks Are Not Made - Or
Used - In Heaven," English Journal, December 1979
"Captive Voices - Are They
Still?" Communication: Journalism Education Today, Spring 1979
Selected Articles in Popular Publications
“Trading Coffee, Computer Chips, and
Degrees in Education,” Commentary in Education Week, 19 October 2005.
“The Schools We Need,” Commentary in Education
Week, 15 January 2002
“Standardization’s Stifling Impact,”
Commentary in Education Week, 28 February 2001.
“Teacher Accountability: Another
Perspective,” Wilmington NewsJournal, June 1999.
“Teacher Unionism: Another View,” Rethinking
Schools, Fall 1998.
“Dignity Is the Issue in Jersey City
Teachers Strike,” Jersey Journal, 27 November 1998.
“Getting the Teachers We Want,” FairTest
Examiner, Spring 1998.
"Fooling the Public, Barring the
Teachers We Need," Education Week, 14 January 1998.
PAPERS - AMERICAN EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH
ASSOCIATION (AERA)
Topic: Social and Political Contexts of
Education
“When
Public Relations and Research Elide: Scrutinizing Research on District 2, New
York City,” April 2002.
“Agency and Agency fee: Limitations and
Expectations of Collective Bargaining in Education,” April 2001.
“What
Are the Distinctive Characteristics of Urban Schools — and How Do They
Influence Teaching?” April 2000
“Can Teacher Education Transform
Schooling?- An International Perspective ” Symposium participant, April 1999.
“Distinctive
Characteristics of Urban School Systems,”April 1999.
“Albert
Shanker: Critical Perspectives.” Symposium organizer and participant, April
1998.
"Teaching as a Political Activity:
What Research Tells Us." Symposium organizer and participant, April 1997
"Teacher Unions and School Reform:
Voices from the Field." Symposium
organizer and participant, April
1996
"Historical Perspectives on the Merger
of the AFT and NEA." Symposium
organizer and participant, April
1995.
"Teacher Unions and Professional
Organization: Re-Examining Margaret Haley's Counsel on Councils," April 1992.
"Lost and Found at the Crossroads:
Teachers' Lives and Their Organizations," April 1991
"Writing the History of Education in
the 1960's: Examining Teacher Organizations," April, 1991
Topic: Urban Teacher Education
“Why is Classroom Managing So Vexing to Urban Teachers? New
Directions for Research and Theory in Classroom Management.” Invited
presentation, SIG on Classroom Management, April 2002.
“Challenging the Cultural ‘Taken-for-Grantedness’
of Preservice Teacher Candidates in a Program of
Urban Teacher Preparation.” Primary investigator, April 2000.
“Clarifying the Multiple Linkages between
State Educational Policy to Improve Schools and Curriculum and Instruction in a
Program of Urban Teacher Preparation.” Roundtable presentation, Primary
investigator, April 1999.
"How Teaching in an Urban Setting
Alters Teachers' Career Motivations: Results of a Longitudinal Study," April 1997.
"Teaching Culturally Different
Students: Political Assumptions of Research." Symposium organizer and
participant, April 1995.
"When Values Collide [between programs
of teacher preparation and prospective teachers],” April 1994.
"How the Urban Setting Affects Student
Teachers' Motivations for Choosing Teaching as a Career," April
1994.
"Preparing Teachers for a New
Educational Paradigm: Lessons from the 1960's," April 1992.
SELECTED PRESENTATIONS AND INVITED
ADDRESSES
“What makes teaching in NYC schools
special?” Edna Wolfe Speaker Series
Invited Address, Brooklyn College,
March 2005.
“Making sense of ‘best practices’ in urban
teaching,” Keynote address to Baltimore
City Schools New Teacher Project
Conference, November 2004.
“Teaching
math and science in urban schools: Why is it special?” Keynote address to New
York University Conference of Math and Science Educators, May 2003.
“Challenges in urban teacher education in
the U.S.,” Invited address to Faculty of Education,
York
University, Toronto Canada, April 2003.
“Crafting
successful collaborations to improve urban teaching,” Keynote speaker for
SUNY-New York City Teacher Education Collaborative, July 2002.
“One
hundred years of urban education,” Keynote speaker, Conference on urban
education, Buffalo State University, May 2001.
“How do we partner to prepare quality
teachers?” Keynote speaker for Cleveland State University-Cleveland School
District Consortium, March 2001.
“The importance of regional collaborations
for urban teacher education,” St. Louis Partnership, November 2000.
“The
contribution of parent knowledge to university-based teacher preparation.”
American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education, February 2000.
“Minority teachers: The meaning of being a
‘scarce and valuable resource.’” Invited address to recipients of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund Urban Minority
Fellowship. Chantilly, VA., July 1999.
“What makes urban teaching distinctive?
Applying research to teacher preparation.” Professional clinic at Association of Teacher Educators, February 1999.
"Urban teacher preparation: A
perspective from the U.S." Seminar at Stockholms Lararhogskolan, Sweden,
October 1997.
"What's Unique about urban teacher
preparation?" - Invited address to the American Association of Colleges of
Teacher Education, Project UNITE, February 1995.
GRANTS AND RESEARCH AWARDS
Awarded: Spencer Foundation, 1998-1999. Grant to revise and update
research on urban teacher preparation.
Awarded: City University of New York,
1997-1998. PSC/CUNY grant to review research on urban teacher preparation,
1989-1998.
Awarded: College of Staten Island,
1996-1997. Dean’s award for review of research on the relationship between
multiple
intelligences and culture, and the
application to urban teacher preparation.
Awarded: Jersey City State College,
1993-1995. Grant to investigate longitudinal effects of urban teaching on
teachers’ career motivations.
SELECTED PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Chair, AERA Special Interest Group on
Teachers’ work/teachers unions, 2003- present.
Reviewer of conference proposals, AERA Divisions F, G, K, L, G, 1997-present.
Reviewer of manuscripts for Educational
Foundations, American Educational Research Journal, Educational
Policy, Journal of Teacher Education, 1995-present.
Center for Research on Education,
Diversity, Excellence (CREDE) Research Synthesis Team, 2002-2003.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
AERA: Divisions F,G K, and L
AERA: Special Interest Groups - Teaching
and Learning in the Cities; Teachers' Work/Teachers Unions; Critical Study of
Race, Class, and Gender
American Educational Studies Association
COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES
Advisory board member,
Education-Initiatives-Performance (EIP) Manhattan entertainment industry
school-to-work project for urban middle school students.
Editorial Board member and education
editor, New Politics magazine