Adolescents at School, Third Edition: Perspectives on Youth, Identity, and Education

Michael Sadowski is an assistant professor in the Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) Program at Bard College, based in New York City and Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, where his course, "Identity, Culture, and the Classroom," explores many of the issues addressed in Adolescents at School. Prior to teaching at Bard, he was an instructor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education; editor of the Harvard Education Letter, for which he received several writing awards from the Association of Educational Publishers and the National Press Club; and vice-chair of the Massachusetts Governor's Commission on Gay and Lesbian Youth. In addition to Adolescents at School, he is the editor of Teaching Immigrant and Second-Language Students: Strategies for Success (Harvard Education Press, 2004), a contributor to the Encyclopedia of the Life Course and Human Development (Macmillan, 2008), and the author of numerous journal articles and book chapters. A former full-time English and drama teacher, he continues to coteach at the high school level with faculty at New Day Academy, one of the Bard MAT Program's partner public schools in the South Bronx.