FACULTY DIRECTORY
Judith Kafka
Associate Professor
Mailing Address:
Baruch College/CUNY
School of Public Affairs
One Bernard Baruch Way, Box D-0901
New York, NY 10010
Office Location: 135 East 22nd Street, Room 412
Phone: 646 660-6838
Fax: 646 660-6831
Email: Judith.Kafka@baruch.cuny.edu
Biography
Judith Kafka uses a historical lens to examine the social, political, and institutional forces that shape American schooling. Her research focuses on urban education from the postwar era through today, and she is particularly interested in the ways in which public education serves to both interrupt and reinforce social and economic inequalities in America. Her current projects include a genealogy of small school reform and a study of the impact of the civil rights movement on the evolution of school discipline policies. She teaches courses in educational policy and school leadership in Baruch College’s Aspiring Leaders program at the School of Public Affairs. Professor Kafka received her PhD and Masters degrees from the University of California at Berkeley, and before pursuing her graduate studies was a middle school teacher for three years. Her work has appeared in History of Education Quarterly and Phi Delta Kappa.
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