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Her center served as a model for many who followed. She worked closely with the schools, guiding teachers, paraprofessionals, volunteers and parents in how to help their students become readers. Working in an impoverished area in Coney Island, she employed and trained neighborhood women to assist in this work. A number of these women went back ...
In 1988, she became Dean of the School of Education at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York. At Brooklyn College, Grumet directed the development of a new teacher education curriculum for early childhood and elementary education majors, developed the Center for Educational Change, and was a founder of Bridges to Brooklyn, a New ...
Brooklyn College was founded in 1930. [5] That year, as directed by the New York City Board of Higher Education on April 22, the college authorized the combination of the Downtown Brooklyn branches of Hunter College, at that time a city women's college, and the City College of New York, then a men's college (both these branches had been established in 1926).
Edwin G. "Ted" Burrows (May 15, 1943 [1] – May 4, 2018) was a Distinguished Professor of History at Brooklyn College.He is the co-author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 (1998), and author of Forgotten Patriots: The Untold Story of American Prisoners During the Revolutionary War, (2008), which won the 2009 Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award.
Pages in category "Brooklyn College faculty" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 400 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Robert D. Cherry (born 1944) is an American academic who is professor emeritus at Brooklyn College, with a Ph.D. in Economics from Kansas State University received in 1968. Before retiring, he was Broeklundian Professor at Brooklyn College. [1]
Marie K. Rutkoski (born March 5, 1977) [1] in Hinsdale, Illinois [1] is an American children's writer, and professor at Brooklyn College. [2] She has three younger siblings. [ 1 ] She graduated from the University of Iowa with a B.A. in English with a minor in French in 1999, and then her English M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2003 ...
Zukin's research interests and analytical framework place her in the broad category of Neo-Marxist social thinkers. She began teaching urban sociology just as the “new urban sociology” was emerging, partly in response to a series of urban riots (many of which involved African-Americans reacting to police brutality or other manifestations of systemic racism) that took place in U.S. cities ...