Deborah Meier is a senior scholar at NYU’s Steinhardt School, and Board member of the Coalition of Essential Schools, FairTest, SOS and Dissent and The Nation magazines. She is currently Acting Chair of the Coalition of Essential Schools and SOS. She spent 45 years working in K-12th grade public schools in New York City (East Harem) and Boston (Roxbury), including leadership of several highly successful small democratically run urban schools – the Central Park East schools and Mission Hill.
Her books include The Power of Their Ideas and In Schools We Trust. In 1987 she was the first educator to receive a McArthur “genius” Award. In addition to her personal blog, Deborah Meier on Education, she blogs at Bridging Differences with various education thinkers on the big issues affecting students, teachers, and schools.
