Judith Kafka is an associate professor of educational policy and the history of education at the Baruch College Marxe School of Public and International Affairs and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Her scholarship uses a historical lens to examine the social, political, and institutional forces that shape American schooling, with a focus on the ways education policies can serve to both interrupt and reinforce social and economic inequalities. Kafka is the author of The History of “Zero Tolerance” in American Public Schooling (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), which explores the intersection of race, politics, and bureaucracy in the context of school discipline.
