David Bloomfield

  Professor
  Department: Education, School of
  Location: 2205a James Hall
  Phone: 718-951-5608
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DAVID C. BLOOMFIELD, PROGRAM HEAD, EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP.
JOINT APPOINTMENT, THE GRADUATE SCHOOL & UNIVERSITY CENTER, Ph.D. PROGRAM IN URBAN EDUCATION (elected Member, Executive Committee)
Personal Website: www.davidcbloomfield.com

AUTHOR: AMERICAN PUBLIC EDUCATION LAW (PETER LANG, 2007) other chapters and articles.

Former elem., sec. teacher; Counsel, NYC Board of Ed.; Gen. Counsel/Sr. Ed. Advisor, Manhattan Borough Pres.; Exec. Dir. for public ed. programs, NYC Partnership; federal law clerk, SDNY; Assoc., Hogan & Hartson; Asst. Corp. Counsel, NYC Law Dept. Pres., Citywide Council on High Schools; Board Member, Literacy Assistance Center.

Frequent media commentary

Columbia U. School of Law (JD), Princeton U. (MPA), Brandeis U. (BA), attended Univ. of Wales, Cardiff and Baruch College, CUNY.

Honors: African-American Institute Fellow; Paul Robeson Prize; NYS Distinguished Educator; Marquis' Who's Who in America and Who's Who in the World; others

Education:
Superintendent Certification, BARUCH COLLEGE, CUNY - 1992 (EDUCATIONAL ADMIN. AND SUPERVISION)

DOCTOR OF JURISPRUDENCE, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY - 1984

M.P.A., WOODROW WILSON SCHOOL, PRINCETON UNIVERSITY - 1984 (URBAN & DOMESTIC POLICY / EDUCATION)

B.A. MAGNA CUM LAUDE WITH HONORS IN AMER.STUDI, BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY - 1975 (AMERICAN STUDIES / EDUCATION)

non-degree, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, CARDIFF, WALES, UK - 1973 (EDUCATION)

Areas of Expertise:
Expert: Education Law, Legislation, & Policy; School District Management; Parent and Community Outreach; Independent School Planning; Instructional Technology/Peer Education; and School Finance Successful Draft Legislation: Charter Schools, Parent Rights, NYC School Governance. "Children's First" plan (MBPO 1994)called "the single most substantial improvement in the governance of this city in decades."

Books and Publications
"Another Blow to Civic Discourse: Almontaser v. NYC Board of Education," GothamSchools.org, Sept. 14, 2009. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2009

"Credit Recovery: Joel Klein's Race to the Bottom," GothamSchools.org, June 10, 2009. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2009

"Keys to a Better Education for Our Kids," Letter (re: teacher induction), N.Y. Times, February 19, 2009. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2009

"Lessons for Michael Bloomberg on Presidents Day," New York City Public School Parents (website), February 15, 2009. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2009

"Qualified Immunity for School Leaders: Safford USD v. Redding," Teachers College Record, http://www.tcrecord.org, ID Number: 15737, online publication, August 5, 2009. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2009

"Small Schools: Myth and Reality," in NYC Schools Under Bloomberg/Klein: What Parents, Teachers and Policymakers Need to Know, Diane Ravitch, et al., ed. (Lulu, 2009). (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2009

"Special Education: Initiative or Inertia," GothamSchools.org, September 29, 2009 (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2009

"NCLB: Hits, Misses, and Reauthorization," New York County Lawyer, vol. 4, no. 3, April 2008. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2008

"Preserving and Improving Mayoral Control of the New York City Public Schools," Testimony posted at www.davidcbloomfield.wordpress.com, November, 2008. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2008

"Re-Thinking Student Discipline," Guest Column, The School Administrator (Journal of the American Association of School Administrators), vol. 65, no. 6, June, 2008. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2008

"Report Cards Flunk the Clarity Test," GothamGazette.com, November 26, 2007. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2007

"Story on New Century Study Faulted on Many Grounds," Letter, Education Week, November 14, 2007. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2007

"Understanding Affirmative Action by J. Edward Kellough," book review, Teachers College Record, July 17, 2006, http://www.tcrecord.org, ID Number: 12595 (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2007

AMERICAN PUBLIC EDUCATION LAW (PETER LANG) (Books and Publications: Book) 2007

PRAEGER HANDBOOK OF SPECIAL EDUCATION, LAW ARTICLES (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2007

"Come Clean on Small Schools," Education Week, vol. 25, issue 20, January 25, 2006. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2006

"Understanding Affirmative Action by J. Edward Kellough," book review, Teachers College Record, July 17, 2006, http://www.tcrecord.org, ID Number: 12595. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2006

"High School Reform: The Downside of Scaling Up," Politics of Education Association Bulletin, vol. 30, no. 1, Fall, 2005. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2005

"LEGAL ISSUES IN THE CLASSROOM" in Classroom Teaching, An Introduction, J. Kincheloe, ed. (Peter Lang) (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2005

"No Child Left Behind: A New Role for Federal Government," with Bruce S. Cooper, introductory article to "Making Sense of NCLB," Technology Horizons in Education (THE) Journal, vol. 30, no. 10, May, 2003. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2003

"Strategic Management in Urban School Governance: Balancing Autonomy and Control in the New York City Public Schools," with Bruce S. Cooper in A Race Against Time: The Crisis in Urban Schooling, James G. Cibulka and William L. Boyd, eds. (Praeger, 2003). (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2003

Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums
"'Bong Hits 4 Jesus' and the Evolving Law of Public School Free Expression," Brooklyn Bar Association, January 22, 2009. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2009

"Covering Education," Columbia University School of Journalism, March 10, 2008. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2008

"High School Reform and Special Education," Education Week online chat, November 10, 2008. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2008

"Mayoral Control," panelist, The Manhattan Institute, March 25, 2008. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Contributed Talk) 2008

"New York City Education Issues," Teachers Network Leadership Institute, New York, NY, October 11, 2008. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2008

"Preserving & Improving Mayoral Control," Forum on Mayoral Control, The Great Hall at Cooper Union, New York, NY, November 12, 2008. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2008

School Governance Town Hall, panelist, Brooklyn Borough Hall, July 16, 2008 (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2008

"Dual Registration of Educational Leadership Programs," Advancing Leadership Preparation Conference, Albany, NY, January 19, 2007. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2007

"Empowerment Schools and Special Education," New York Branch, International Dyslexia Assn., January 11, 2007. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2007

"Law, Legal Consciousness, and Student Discipline," Class Disrupted Forum, Common Good, Washington, D.C., October 31, 2007. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2007

"Law, Legal Consciousness, and Student Discipline," Class Disrupted Forum, Common Good, Washington, D.C., October 31, 2007. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2007

Panelist, NYC Dropout Summit, Baruch College, CUNY, February 23, 2007. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Contributed Talk) 2007

Professional Leadership
BOARD MEMBER, LITERACY ASSISTANCE CENTER OF NEW YORK (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2007

JOINT APPOINTMENT, THE GRADUATE SCHOOL & UNIVERSITY CENTER, Ph.D. PROGRAM IN URBAN EDUCATION (elected Member, Executive Committee) (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 1999

Community Activities
PRESIDENT, CITYWIDE COUNCIL ON HIGH SCHOOLS 2007