When you think of CCNY you think of graduates like Nobel laureates Robert Hofstadter and Robert Hauptman, Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter, financiers Henry Morgenthau Sr. and Bernard Baruch, authors Sidney Hook, Paul Goodman, Seymour Martin...

York’s Hell’s Kitchen by his mother, after his father abandoned the family, he had seen a lot of what he identified in poor black families in his own community. When he agreed to write the Irish Catholic chapter in “Beyond the Melting Pot,” the 1963...

It is also a record of his path out of that world, and his arrival among the New York Intellectuals, the storied group of Jewish writers and social theorists who graduated from City College and included Daniel Bell, Nathan Glazer and Irving Howe, among...

How much difference is there, after all, among William F. Buckley, Sidney Hook, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Nathan Glazer, Norman Podhoretz, and Irving Kristol — or even between them and Heilbroner and John Kenneth Galbraith? Admittedly there are...

In today’s New York Times, Ed Next’s Rick Hess and Stanford’s Linda Darling-Hammond team up to plead for a smarter federal role in education. In the Fall 2011 issue of Ed Next, Nathan Glazer reviewed two books that trace the development of NCLB and help...