Bard, A Place to Think - Master of Arts in Teaching

B.A., Temple University; M.A., Ed.D, Teachers College, Columbia University. Scholarly interests focus on the demographics and quality of the public school teaching force; student resistance and school failure; and the development of pedagogical content knowledge in social studies teachers. Professional experience includes fifteen years experience as secondary social studies teacher and administrator in New York and four years as a teacher educator at Teachers College. Recent publications include chapters in Studying teacher education: The report of the AERA panel on research and teacher education (AACTE 2006 Outstanding Publication Award) and "Who is teaching? Does it matter?" in the forthcoming Handbook on teacher education (both co-authored with Karen Zumwalt).