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Department: Urban Education

Executive Officer: Professor Sherry Deckman

The Graduate Center

365 Fifth Avenue

New York, NY 10016

Email: Urban_ed@gc.cuny.edu

https://www.gc.cuny.edu/UrbanEducation

FACULTY

Jennifer Adams, Daisuke Akiba, Konstantinos Alexakos, Philip Anderson, Molly Andrews, Igor Arievitch, Laura Ascenzi-Moreno, Paul Attewell, Juan Battle, Gillian Bayne, April Bedford, Regina Bernard, David Bloomfield, Victor Bobetsky, Stephen Brier, David Brotherton, Heath Brown, Roscoe Brown Jr., Stephan Brumberg, Alberto Bursztyn, Mary Bushnell-Greiner, Limarys Caraballo, Barry Cherkas, Mark Christian, Jennifer Collett, David Connor, Laurel Cooley, Hector Cordero-Guzman, Colette Daiute, Jacqueline Darvin, Sherry Deckman, Jose Del Valle, Brahmadeo Dewprashad, Eileen Donoghue, Terrie Epstein, Cecilia Espinosa, Beverly Falk, Harriet Fayne, Gene Fellner, Beth Ferholt, Michelle Fine, Namulundah Florence, Mary Foote, David Forbes, Madeline Fox, Ofelia Garcia, Francis Gardella, David Gerwin, Kenneth Gold, Amita Gupta, Immaculee Harushimana, Hanna Haydar, Judith Kafka, Kimberly Kinsler, Tatyana Kleyn, Marcia Knoll, Karen Koellner, Carol Korn-Bursztyn, Carmen Kynard, Wendy Luttrell, Irina Lyublinskaya, Ariana Mangual Figueroa, Michael Meagher, Kate Menken, Nicholas Michelli, Eleanor Miele, Pamela Mills, George Otte, Janet Patti, Anthony Picciano, Wesley Pitts, Rosa Rivera-McCutchen, Bethany Rogers, Karel Rose, Laurie Rubel, Martin Ruck, Melissa Schieble, Greg Seals, Susan Semel, Deborah Shanley, Ira Shor, Kersha Smith, Debbie Sonu, Joel Spring, Richard Steinberg, Anna Stetsenko, Despina Stylianou, Celina Su, Susan Sullivan, Liqing Tao, Dante Tawfeeq, Kenneth Tobin, Maria Elena Torre, Eleni Tournaki, Ellen Trief, Jan Valle, Patricia Velasco, Eduardo Vianna, Joseph Viteritti, Terri Watson, Claire Wladis, Julia Wrigley, Yael Wyner, Betina Zolkower

THE PROGRAM

The Ph.D. Program in Urban Education is designed to prepare leaders in educational research and policy analysis who have a broad understanding of the complex issues across the educational spectrum and seek to transform present day inequalities. The unique focus of this program is at the intersection of multiple research agendas including issues of organization, administration, curriculum, and pedagogy in urban schools (from pre-K through higher education); forms of teaching and learning that occur across institutional settings including families, schools, community and civic organizations; and research on the historical, social, cultural, political, and economic issues that determine the context of urban education.

The intellectual challenges of investigating the processes and practices of urban education as a social and cultural institution require the broad intellectual base and diverse critical perspectives that only an integrated program of studies across a wide range of specialist disciplines can provide. The intellectual resources of the CUNY Graduate Center enable students in this program to draw on elective courses and research faculty in many relevant partner disciplines, including English, History, Philosophy, Psychology, Sociology, Anthropology, Economics, and Political Science. When appropriate to their interests, students gain expertise in the humanities, theories of learning, culture, language, race, gender, (dis)ability, political economy, mathematics, new technologies, and curricular and policy analysis that are offered as program seminars in selected topics. Five core courses are required of all students (see below).

Examples of anticipated areas of research for student dissertations include: systemic renewal of urban education, including teacher education; new information and communication technologies in education; issues of language, representational media, and cultural diversity in urban education; and mobilization of urban resources to prepare all students for full participation in global society.

Graduates of this program are prepared to take on a wide variety of important roles in urban education: research and teaching in universities, including teacher education programs; research and leadership positions in urban school districts and in state and federal government agencies; policy analysis positions for private foundations; and staff positions with legislators and legislative committees.

The program provides students with a unique access to and understanding of the New York City public schools, the nation’s largest system of urban public education. The many teacher education and educational outreach programs of the CUNY colleges have long-established relationships with the city’s diverse schools and districts. Through research mentoring, internship, and teaching fellowship arrangements for doctoral students at all the participating CUNY colleges, the Ph.D. program works to connect conceptual perspectives with the realities of urban schools and school systems.