Eva Moskowitz
| Eva Moskowitz | |
|---|---|
| Born |
March 4, 1964 New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Alma mater |
University of Pennsylvania (BA) Johns Hopkins University (MA, PhD) |
| Political party | Democratic |
Eva Sarah Moskowitz (born March 4, 1964) is founder and CEO of Success Academy Charter Schools and a former City Councilmember for the Upper East Side, both in New York City.
Her later work has centered on the privatization of public education by the charter school movement. Besides founding charter management organization Success Academy Charter Schools (originally Harlem Success Academy), she has worked with the Harlem Education Fair, runs the Great Public Schools PAC,StudentsFirstNY, and worked with the New York City Charter School Center. She cowrote Mission Possible (2012) with Arin Lavinia, mainly a guide to running charter schools. She has a Ph.D. in history, wrote In Therapy We Trust (2001), and wrote a scholarly study of Betty Friedan's work in 1996.
As a City Councilmember from 1999-2005 she chaired the Education Committee and lost a primary election to be the Democratic party nominee for Manhattan Borough President in 2005.
Moskowitz grew up in the Columbia University neighborhood of Morningside Heights, Manhattan. She graduated from Stuyvesant High School, where "she thought half of the teachers were incompetent", according to Steven Brill and claimed to the New Yorker she "didn't learn anything". She found widespread student cheating and a coverup by the principal, according to New York magazine, and began to consider that teachers' ability to choose where they would teach based on their seniority meant that they chose Stuyvesant, where, according to Brill, "the students could teach themselves." Moskowitz went to the University of Pennsylvania, where, she said, a professor criticized her writing ability, and she studied writing, getting a B.A. with honors in history and influencing her prioritizing writing by her students at Success Academy Charter Schools. She received a Ph.D. in American history from Johns Hopkins University with her 1991 dissertation, "Naming the Problem: How Popular Culture and Experts Paved the Way For "personal politics".
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