Judith Kafka
Biographic Data
| ID | 5429624 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Judith Kafka |
| GIVEN NAMES | Judith |
| FAMILY NAME | Kafka |
| SIGNATURE | KAFKA J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Baruch College |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4120-1602 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Happiness-Oriented Parents: An Alternative Perspective on Privilege and Choosing Schools
Purpose: Research on privileged parents, defined here as those with the economic, social, and educational resources to navigate school choice processes to their advantage, often depicts such parents as anxious about maintaining social mobility, leading them to “opportunity hoard” desirable or academically competitive schools in ways that exclude other families. In contrast, we identify a subset of privileged parents in urban settings that we term…
Growing Up Together: Brooklyn’s Truant School and the Carceral and Educational State, 1857-1924
This article uses the history of Brooklyn’s Truant School from its inception in 1857 to its demise in 1924 to highlight the interconnected rationales for public education and juvenile incarceration in nineteenth and early twentieth century urban America. Drawing on newspaper accounts and Board of Education records, I seek to historicize current understandings of the so-called school-to-prison pipeline by examining how the nation’s modern penal an…
Interest Convergence and Market-Based School Reform: The Promise and Limits of Using Controlled Choice to Desegregate Schools
When Information Is Not Enough: School Choice, Segregation, and the Elusive Notion of Fit
Background: School choice models assume that parents and children have varied educational preferences and that catering to those preferences will result in superior educational experiences for all. Yet, we still know relatively little about how parents identify the best school “fit” for their children and families. This question is particularly important in the context of gentrifying urban districts, where school choice often serves to broaden an…
Racial Integration, White Appropriation, and School Choice: The Demise of the Colored Schools of Late Nineteenth Century Brooklyn
This study examines school desegregation in late-nineteenth-century Brooklyn from a spatial perspective, analyzing enrollment data and policy debates within the context of the shifting racial and geographic contours of the city. We argue that “choice” on the part of black families only partially explains the demise of designated-black schools during this period. White interests also played a role in the closing of these institutions, as white fam…
The History of "Zero Tolerance" in American Public Schooling
Through a case study of the Los Angeles city school district from the 1950s through the 1970s, Judith Kafka explores the intersection of race, politics, and the bureaucratic organization of schooling
The Principalship in Historical Perspective
This article offers a review of the existing historiography of the American school principal. Although a small and incomplete body of research, scholarship on the history of the principalship demonstrates that it has always been a complex and multifaceted role and that principals have historically drawn on shifting sources of authority to assert their institutional and personal power. The principalship has also been defined by who has occupied th…
Introduction to the Special Issue on the New Politics of Educational Leadership
Editing a special issue is not possible without the support of many. We are grateful to Michele Thompson and Meredith Ross for their editorial assistance. We are indebted to the distinguished scholars who painstakingly reviewed each article in this special issue; much of the credit for its strength goes to them, although we bear the responsibility for all errors and omissions. Our deepest thanks to Jacob Adams, Gary Anderson, Katrina Bulkley, Wil…
Shifting Authority: Teachers’ Role in the Bureaucratization of School Discipline in Postwar Los Angeles
In November of 1956, the Los Angeles City Board of Education held a regular evening meeting devoted entirely to the topic of school discipline. The session began with brief comments from the district superintendent, Ellis Jarvis, who urged those in attendance not to take the issue too seriously Discipline was “an inherent part of education,” he reminded them, and thus was always “a problem of all schools; all schools in this city, in every city, …
Sitting on a Tinderbox”: Racial Conflict, Teacher Discretion, and the Centralization of Disciplinary Authority
The centralization of school discipline in the second half of the twentieth century is widely understood to be the inevitable result of court decisions granting students certain civil rights in school. This study examines the process by which school discipline became centralized in the Los Angeles City School District in the late 1960s and early 1970s, however, and finds that the locus of control over student discipline shifted from the school si…
Disciplining Youth, Disciplining Women: Motherhood, Delinquency, and Race in Postwar American Schooling
Action, reaction and interaction: Slave women in resistance in the South of Saint Domingue, 1793–94
(1997). Action, reaction and interaction: Slave women in resistance in the South of Saint Domingue, 1793–94. Slavery & Abolition: Vol. 18, No. 2, pp. 48-72
Happiness-Oriented Parents: An Alternative Perspective on Privilege and Choosing Schools
Purpose: Research on privileged parents, defined here as those with the economic, social, and educational resources to navigate school choice processes to their advantage, often depicts such parents as anxious about maintaining social mobility, leading them to “opportunity hoard” desirable or academically competitive schools in ways that exclude other families. In contrast, we identify a subset of privileged parents in urban settings that we term…
Action, reaction and interaction: Slave women in resistance in the South of Saint Domingue, 1793–94
(1997). Action, reaction and interaction: Slave women in resistance in the South of Saint Domingue, 1793–94. Slavery & Abolition: Vol. 18, No. 2, pp. 48-72
The Principalship in Historical Perspective
This article offers a review of the existing historiography of the American school principal. Although a small and incomplete body of research, scholarship on the history of the principalship demonstrates that it has always been a complex and multifaceted role and that principals have historically drawn on shifting sources of authority to assert their institutional and personal power. The principalship has also been defined by who has occupied th…
Sitting on a Tinderbox”: Racial Conflict, Teacher Discretion, and the Centralization of Disciplinary Authority
The centralization of school discipline in the second half of the twentieth century is widely understood to be the inevitable result of court decisions granting students certain civil rights in school. This study examines the process by which school discipline became centralized in the Los Angeles City School District in the late 1960s and early 1970s, however, and finds that the locus of control over student discipline shifted from the school si…
Interest Convergence and Market-Based School Reform: The Promise and Limits of Using Controlled Choice to Desegregate Schools
Shifting Authority: Teachers’ Role in the Bureaucratization of School Discipline in Postwar Los Angeles
In November of 1956, the Los Angeles City Board of Education held a regular evening meeting devoted entirely to the topic of school discipline. The session began with brief comments from the district superintendent, Ellis Jarvis, who urged those in attendance not to take the issue too seriously Discipline was “an inherent part of education,” he reminded them, and thus was always “a problem of all schools; all schools in this city, in every city, …
Action, reaction and interaction: Slave women in resistance in the South of Saint Domingue, 1793–94
(1997). Action, reaction and interaction: Slave women in resistance in the South of Saint Domingue, 1793–94. Slavery & Abolition: Vol. 18, No. 2, pp. 48-72
Sitting on a Tinderbox”: Racial Conflict, Teacher Discretion, and the Centralization of Disciplinary Authority
The centralization of school discipline in the second half of the twentieth century is widely understood to be the inevitable result of court decisions granting students certain civil rights in school. This study examines the process by which school discipline became centralized in the Los Angeles City School District in the late 1960s and early 1970s, however, and finds that the locus of control over student discipline shifted from the school si…
Disciplining Youth, Disciplining Women: Motherhood, Delinquency, and Race in Postwar American Schooling
The Principalship in Historical Perspective
This article offers a review of the existing historiography of the American school principal. Although a small and incomplete body of research, scholarship on the history of the principalship demonstrates that it has always been a complex and multifaceted role and that principals have historically drawn on shifting sources of authority to assert their institutional and personal power. The principalship has also been defined by who has occupied th…
Introduction to the Special Issue on the New Politics of Educational Leadership
Editing a special issue is not possible without the support of many. We are grateful to Michele Thompson and Meredith Ross for their editorial assistance. We are indebted to the distinguished scholars who painstakingly reviewed each article in this special issue; much of the credit for its strength goes to them, although we bear the responsibility for all errors and omissions. Our deepest thanks to Jacob Adams, Gary Anderson, Katrina Bulkley, Wil…
Shifting Authority: Teachers’ Role in the Bureaucratization of School Discipline in Postwar Los Angeles
In November of 1956, the Los Angeles City Board of Education held a regular evening meeting devoted entirely to the topic of school discipline. The session began with brief comments from the district superintendent, Ellis Jarvis, who urged those in attendance not to take the issue too seriously Discipline was “an inherent part of education,” he reminded them, and thus was always “a problem of all schools; all schools in this city, in every city, …
The History of "Zero Tolerance" in American Public Schooling
Through a case study of the Los Angeles city school district from the 1950s through the 1970s, Judith Kafka explores the intersection of race, politics, and the bureaucratic organization of schooling
When Information Is Not Enough: School Choice, Segregation, and the Elusive Notion of Fit
Background: School choice models assume that parents and children have varied educational preferences and that catering to those preferences will result in superior educational experiences for all. Yet, we still know relatively little about how parents identify the best school “fit” for their children and families. This question is particularly important in the context of gentrifying urban districts, where school choice often serves to broaden an…
Racial Integration, White Appropriation, and School Choice: The Demise of the Colored Schools of Late Nineteenth Century Brooklyn
This study examines school desegregation in late-nineteenth-century Brooklyn from a spatial perspective, analyzing enrollment data and policy debates within the context of the shifting racial and geographic contours of the city. We argue that “choice” on the part of black families only partially explains the demise of designated-black schools during this period. White interests also played a role in the closing of these institutions, as white fam…
Happiness-Oriented Parents: An Alternative Perspective on Privilege and Choosing Schools
Purpose: Research on privileged parents, defined here as those with the economic, social, and educational resources to navigate school choice processes to their advantage, often depicts such parents as anxious about maintaining social mobility, leading them to “opportunity hoard” desirable or academically competitive schools in ways that exclude other families. In contrast, we identify a subset of privileged parents in urban settings that we term…
Growing Up Together: Brooklyn’s Truant School and the Carceral and Educational State, 1857-1924
This article uses the history of Brooklyn’s Truant School from its inception in 1857 to its demise in 1924 to highlight the interconnected rationales for public education and juvenile incarceration in nineteenth and early twentieth century urban America. Drawing on newspaper accounts and Board of Education records, I seek to historicize current understandings of the so-called school-to-prison pipeline by examining how the nation’s modern penal an…
Interest Convergence and Market-Based School Reform: The Promise and Limits of Using Controlled Choice to Desegregate Schools
Sociology (12 works) · Political science (10 works) · Law (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Public Administration (6 works) · Public Administration (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · School Choice and Performance (4 works)