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Deborah Meier is a public school teacher, a writer, and an advocate for educational reform.
A learning theorist, Meier encourages new approaches that will enhance democracy and equity in public education. She was the founder and teacher-director of a network of public alternative elementary schools in East Harlem. The schools she has helped create, serving predominantly low-income, African-American and Latino students, are considered models for quality education in the inner city. She is the author of The Power of Their Ideas: Lessons for America from a Small School in Harlem (1995) and In Schools We Trust: Creating Communities of Learning in an Era of Testing and Standardization (2002).
Biography
Meier is a convener at the Forum for Education and Democracy and the director of new ventures at the Mission Hill School in Boston. She was the founder-principal of the Central Park East Secondary School, a public high school in New York City. She has been a senior fellow at the Annenberg Institute of School Reform at Brown University, co-chair of the Council for the New York Network for School Renewal, and vice-chair of the National Coalition of Essential Schools.
Meier attended Antioch College (1949-51) and received an M.A. from the University of Chicago (1955).
Last updated January 1, 2005.
Published on July 1, 1987
