Andrea Gabor

Andrea Gabor is the author of three books, most recently The Capitalist Philosophers. A former staff writer and editor at U.S. News & World Report and Business Week, Professor Gabor has written for The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Smithsonian Magazine, The Harvard Business Review, Fortune, Strategy + Business, Treasury and Risk Management, Research Technology Management, Lear’s and Working Woman. She is the editor of the PBS web siteEinstein’s Wife. She is also the author of The Man Who Discovered Quality: How W. Edwards Deming Brought the Quality Revolution to America and Einstein’s Wife: Work and Marriage in the Lives of Five Great Twentieth Century Women.

In addition to teaching at Baruch, Professor Gabor was an adjunct professor for eight years at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, helping teach Critical Issues in International Economics. At Columbia, she remains a judge for applicants to the Knight-Bagehot Fellowship Program in Business and Economics. Her main areas of interest and expertise are biography, management, the workplace and international and local economic issues.

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Charter Schools Unleashed “Educational Hunger Games” in California. Now It’s Fighting Back.

Article | Jul 2, 2019

Andrea Gabor, author of “After the Education Wars,” discusses how California is pushing back on millionaire-driven charter schools. Will the rest of the America follow?

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The Perils of Treating Schools Like Corporations

Video | May 29, 2019

Treating education like a market is all the rage. But it hurts students, and our society.