Gerald Grant
Professor Emeritus, Hannah Hammond Professor of Education
Cultural Foundations of Education
E-mail: gpgrant@syr.edu
Office:
Rm. 135 Huntington Hall
Phone: 443-7612
Education:
Ed.D. Harvard University, 1972
Formerly education editor and writer on the national staff of The Washington Post (1961-1967), and a Nieman Fellow (1967-68), a post-doctoral Research Fellow in the sociology department at Harvard University. Under grants from the Carnegie Foundation, he coordinated a five-year study of experimental colleges and reform movements published as The Perpetual Dream: Reform and Experiment in the American College (with David Riesman), which won the Borden Award of the American Council on Education. He also wrote On Competence, a critical study of competence-based educational reforms. Grant's The World We Created at Hamilton High, is a sociological history of an urban high school. Grant's book, Teaching in America: The Slow Revolution, with Christine Murray (1999) won the Virginia and Warren Stone Prize. He was a senior associate at the National Institute of Education, a Spencer Fellow of the National Academy of Education, and a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University.