Social Science Research Council
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Program Director
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Richard Arum is the program director of Educational Research at the SSRC; he is also professor of sociology and educational sociology at New York University. He received a Masters of Education in teaching and curriculum from Harvard University in 1988 and a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of California, Berkeley in 1996. Arum is editor of The Structure of Schooling: Readings in the Sociology of Education as well as numerous peer-reviewed articles on education appearing in American Sociological Review, Criminology, Annual Review of Sociology, International Journal of Sociology and Sociology of Education. His recent book, Judging School Discipline: The Crisis of Moral Authority (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2003), analyzes variation in court decisions and how these judicial opinions have affected public school disciplinary practices across jurisdictions and over time. He is coeditor with Adam Gamoran and Yossi Shavit of a comparative study on expansion, differentiation and access to higher education in fifteen countries (forthcoming from Stanford University Press).
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