Jennifer Goldstein

I am motivated by the urgent need to improve the quality of teachers and teaching in schools serving low-income children and children of color in the United States. While my interest in education policy was born as an undergraduate at the University of California, Berkeley, my specific interest in teaching quality as an equity and civil rights issue was solidified as an elementary school teacher in Compton, California. I taught fourth grade in Compton for three years through Teach for America, and later taught in a Newcomer Academy in Campbell, California, before completing my Ph.D. in Administration and Policy Analysis at the Stanford University School of Education.

My areas of specialization are education policy and leadership, in particular teacher professionalization and teacher workforce quality. I focus on ways that district leaders may strategically employ human resource policies in order to develop the local teacher workforce, and ways that teachers themselves can advance teaching as a profession. These two interests come together in the policy of peer review.

I am currently an associate professor in the Baruch College School of Public Affairs of the City University of New York. I serve New York City teachers seeking the credentials to become school and district administrators, and/or teachers engaged in the work of teacher leadership and school improvement.