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Nathan Glazer


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.

Published Articles & Media

Three Rs and a V

Schools should teach the importance of voting

The “Crits” Capture Presidential Power

Top Education researchers denounce scientific research

Beyond the Melting Pot

Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers, By Kwame Anthony Appiah Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny, By Amartya Sen

Seasons Change

The shifting make-up of society and schools has already undermined the common culture

Sensitivity Training

The Language Police: How Pressure Groups Restrict What Students Learn by Diane Ravitch

The Softening of American Education

Hard America, Soft America: Competition vs. Coddling and the Battle for the Nation’s Future By Michael Barone

The Newest Americans

Who Are We? The Challenges to America’s National Identity By Samuel P. Huntington

A Method to His Mastery

Leave No Child Behind: Preparing Today’s Youth for Tomorrow’s World By James P. Comer, M.D. Foreword by Henry Louis Gates Jr.

God: Another Four-Letter Word?

Does God Belong in Public Schools? By Kent Greenawalt Princeton University Press, 2005, $29.95; 261 pages. Between...

Training Teachers

The Trouble with Ed Schools By David F. Labaree

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