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Member of the Week: Erika Kitzmiller
Erika M. Kitzmiller Teachers College Columbia University Describe your current research. What about it drew your interest? My scholarship examines the historical processes and current reform efforts...
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Member of the Week: René Luís Alvarez
René Luís Alvarez, PhD Lecturer in History Arrupe College of Loyola University Chicago Describe your current research. What about it drew your interest? I have researched and written about the...
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Digital Summer School: Harlem Education History Project
All good things must come to an end, and this is especially true of summer school. Whether talking about the 1980s Mark Harmon feature or the classroom, digital and analog, it’s come time to shutter...
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Member of the Week: Michael Glass
Michael Glass Ph.D. Candidate, Princeton University @m_r_glass Describe your current research. What about it drew your interest? As a former New York City high school teacher, I’ve long been...
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Cody High School: From Promise to Punishment
Our second entrant into the Third Annual UHA/The Metropole Graduate Student Blogging Contest is Matt Kautz, who takes us to a very particular high school in Detroit. The life cycle of this one...
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An Ode to Students
By Allison Raven Of the many abstract nouns in the world, “injustice” is perhaps the one best suited for seventh graders. Middle schoolers in general have very profound senses of justice, and...
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Education Failed to be an Equalizer in Boston — A Review of “The Education Trap”
Groeger, Cristina Viviana. The Education Trap: Schools and the Remaking of Inequality in Boston. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2021. Reviewed by Erika M. Kitzmiller For centuries, social...
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Member of the Week: Marta Gutman
Marta Gutman You wear a lot of hats! What are your many and varied affiliations? I am Interim Dean and Professor of Architecture (History and Theory) at the Spitzer School of Architecture, City...
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Sharing Responsibility after 3:00 P.M.: Bridging School and Neighborhood with...
Our second entrant into the Fifth Annual UHA/The Metropole Graduate Student Blogging Contest is Rachel Klepper, who takes us back to New York City’s Yorkville neighborhood in the late 1940s to examine...
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Digital Summer School: The Boston Teacher’s Union Collection
The residents of Boston have witnessed no small amount of debate and conflict in the city’s education and labor history. Schools have served as a flashpoint in this history, and a project that has...
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