Author
Nathan Glazer
Author Website: http://www.gse.harvard.edu/directory/faculty/faculty-detail/?fc=429&flt=g&sub=all
Author Bio:
Nathan Glazer is professor emeritus of sociology and education at Harvard University and a contributing editor of The New Republic. A leading authority on issues of race, immigration, urban development and social policy in the United states, he is the author of numerous books including We Are All Multiculturalists Now, Beyond the Melting Pot and The Lonely Crowd (with David Riesman). He also wrote the oft-cited article “Schools of the Minor Professions.”
Glazer was formerly an assistant editor of Commentary magazine and a co-editor of The Public Interest, as well as being a past professor of sociology at the University of California at Berkeley. He has held Guggenheim Fellowships and Fulbright grants, been granted honorary degrees by a number of colleges and universities, and has served on Presidential task forces on education and urban policy and the National Academy of Science’s committees on urban policy and minority issues.
Glazer holds a Ph. D. in sociology from Columbia University, a master’s in anthropology and linguistics from the University of Pennsylvania and a bachelor of special studies from the City College of New York.
Articles
It depends on raising the competence of a workforce of millions
SPRING 2012 / VOL. 12, NO. 2
Sadly, still more single-parent families. A review of Mitch Pearlstein’s “Shortchanging Student Achievement: The Educational, Economic, and Social Costs of Family Fragmentation”
SUMMER 2012 / VOL. 12, NO. 3
The Locke school story leaves questions unanswered
WINTER 2012 / VOL. 12, NO. 1
Review of Schoolhouse of Cards by Eugene Hickok and Collision Course by Paul Manna
Fall 2011 / Vol. 11, No. 4
Review of Five Miles Away, A World Apart by James E. Ryan
Summer 2011 / Vol. 11, No. 3
Review of Jeffrey E. Mirel’s Patriotic Pluralism
Winter 2011 / Vol. 11, No. 1
Review of Larry Cuban’s As Good As It Gets
Fall 2010 / Vol. 10, No. 4
Review of E. D. Hirsch Jr.’s The Making of Americans
Summer 2010 / Vol. 10, No. 3
Review of Gerald Grant’s Hope and Despair in the ?American City
Spring 2010 / Vol. 10, No. 2
Columbine by Dave Cullen
As reviewed by Nathan Glazer
Winter 2010 / Vol. 10, No. 1
The answer may be luck, genes, and more
Fall 2009 / Vol. 9, No. 4
Is it asking too much?
Winter 2009 / Vol. 9, No. 1
Why technology in education doesn’t need to be very good
Fall 2008 / Vol. 8, No. 4
States’ efforts to reach the very young
Summer 2008 / Vol. 8, No. 3
An honest look at union hero Albert Shanker
Spring 2008 / Vol. 8, No. 2
Some schools make it work
Winter 2008 / Vol. 8, No. 1
Schools should teach the importance of voting
Summer 2007 / Vol. 7, No. 3
Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers
By Kwame Anthony Appiah
Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny
By Amartya Sen
Fall 2006 / Vol. 6, No. 4
The Trouble with Ed Schools By David F. Labaree
Summer 2005 / Vol. 5, No. 3
Colormute: Race Talk Dilemmas in an American School by MICA POLLOCK
Winter 2006 / Vol. 6, No. 1
