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Dr. Lois Weiner
Currently an independent researcher and author, I am Professor Emerita of education at New Jersey City University. My research and publications are grounded in commitment to social justice in education, especially in urban schools.
In addition to my focus on urban teaching and teacher preparation, my scholarship analyzes how teachers unions can be democratized to realize their full potential: centering social justice to defend public education; supporting the teaching profession; and improving conditions in which students learn, especially those children who have the greatest need for quality schools.
A vastly under-studied and mostly unrecognized threat to public education that my research and activism currently explore is public schools’ adoption of educational technology for curriculum and evaluation of student learning, and its connection to new power networks in the economy and politics.
My scholarship and activism are informed by my having been a career teacher, a professor of education, a life-long social justice activist, and a mother and sister of a disabled sibling.
I write frequently on teachers unions, labor, and education for popular publications, including New Politics , Truthout, and the Jacobin.