Mary E. Driscoll
Associate Professor of Educational Administration; Department Chair
Phone: 998-5532
Email: mary.driscoll@nyu.edu
Mary Erina Driscoll is Associate Professor of Educational Administration in the Steinhardt School of Education at New York University. Her current research, funded by the NYU Center for Catastrophe Preparedness and Response, focuses on the effects that selected educational policies had on students displaced throughout the US by the 2005 hurricanes. Her work explores how schools and communities are connected, and also investigates the ways in which communities can serve as contexts for student learning.
Dr. Driscoll has served as President of the University Council for Educational Administration and has been active in the National Policy Board for Educational Administration. Her work in educational policy includes consultancies with the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards and as a staff assistant to the Study Group chaired by Lamar Alexander that examined the National Assessment for Educational Progress. She is a member of the editorial board of Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis and Educational Administration Quarterly, and has served on the editorial boards of Teachers College Record and the Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership.In 2003 she was invited to give the second annual Willower Family Lecture at the University at Buffalo.
Professor Driscoll teaches Leadership for School Improvement, the Professional Seminar in Administration, and Quantitative Methods in Organizational and Administrative Studies. She is a graduate of the University of Chicago, where she completed her doctoral work; Sarah Lawrence College (MA in Child Development); and Connecticut College (BA in Music and the Special Child).
Degrees Held
- B.A.
Connecticut College
- M.A.
Sarah Lawrence College
- Ph.D.
University of Chicago
Selected Publications
- Driscoll, Mary Erina. (2001). The sense of place and the neighborhood school: Implicatins for building social capital and for community development. In R. Crowson (Ed.), Community Development and School Reform (New York: JAI/Elseveier), pp. 19-42.
- Driscoll, Mary Erina and Goldring, Ellen. (2005). How can school leaders incorporate communities as contexts for student learning? In W .Firestone and C. Riehl (Eds.), A new agenda for research in educational leadership (New York: Teachers College Press),pp. 61-80
- Driscoll, Mary Erina. (2007). The Circus Animals' Desertion: Lessons for Leadership in the Work of Philip W. Jackson. In D.Hansen, M.E. Driscoll, & R. Arcilla (Eds.), To Watch the Water Clear: Philip W. Jackson and the Practice of Education (New York: Teachers College Press).
- Hansen, D., Driscoll, M.E., and Arcilla, R., (Eds.) (2007) To watch the water clear: Philip W. Jackson and the Practice of Education. New York: Teachers College Press.
Courses
- EDLED-GE 2305 - Leadership for School Improvement
- EDLED-GE 3015 - Seminar in Theories of Administration
- AMLT-GE 3027 - Quantitative Methods in Organizational and Administrative Studies
Editorial Boards
- Educational Evaluation & Policy Analysis, Past Editorial Board Member
- Educational Administration Quarterly, Past Editorial Board Member
- Teachers College Record, Past Editorial Board Member
- Peabody Journal of Education, Editorial Board Member
Research Interests
Connections between schools and their communities Effects of selected policies on the education of students displaced by the 2005 hurricanes How communities serve as contexts for student learning