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NORM
FRUCHTER
 Norm
Fruchter is the director of New
York University’s Institute for Education and Social Policy
and Clinical Professor of Education Policy at NYU. For ten years
he was the Program Advisor for Education at the Aaron Diamond Foundation.
His publications include Hard Lessons: Public Schools and Privatization,
New Directions at Parent Involvement and Choosing Equity:
The Case for Democratic Schooling , as well as two novels, Coat
Upon a Stick and Single File . His career includes work
as Senior Consultant with the Academy for Educational Development
and Advocates for Children of New York, director of the Institute
for Citizen Involvement in Education in New Jersey, and co-founder
and co-director of Independence High School in Newark, an alternative
high school for dropouts, as well as am elected board member, for
ten years, in Brooklyn’s District 15. Fruchter has also produced
and directed prize-winning documentary films, including Troublemakers
(1966) and Summer 1968 (1969). He received his BA from Rutgers
University and his graduate degree from Teachers College, Columbia
University.
Institute for
Education and Social Policy
NYU
726 Broadway, 5th Floor
New York, NY 10003-9580
Tel: 212.998.5880
Fax: 212.995.4564
norm.fruchter@nyu.edu
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