Books

Kitzmiller, Erika M. Cultivating Care, Connection, Community: Carver High School Engineering and Science (manuscript in progress)

Kitzmiller, Erika M. The Roots of Educational Inequality: Philadelphia’s Germantown High School, 1907 - 2014. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021.

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

Kitzmiller, Erika M. and Akira Drake Rodriguez, “Addressing Our Nation’s Toxic School Infrastructure in the Wake of COVID-19,” Educational Researcher, provisional accept.

Kitzmiller, Erika M. and Elizabeth Burton, “Examining the Range of Youth Experiences with the Black Lives Matter Movement in Rural America,” Journal of Research in Rural Education, forthcoming.

Kitzmiller, Erika M. “We are the Forgotten of the Forgottens: Teacher Perspectives on Charter School Reform,” Harvard Educational Review, 66, no. 3 (Fall 2020): 371 – 396.  

McWilliams, Julia and Erika M. Kitzmiller, “Mass School Closures and the Politics of Value and Disposability in Philadelphia,” Teachers College Record, 121, no. 2 (January 2019): 1 – 44. 

Kitzmiller, Erika M. “Educating Educators in the Age of Trump,” Radical Teacher: A Socialist, Feminist, and Anti-Racist Journal on the Theory and Practice of Teaching, 111 (2018): 65 – 79. 

Kitzmiller, Erika M. “Nellie Rathbone Bright: Acclaimed Author, Educator Activist, Un-American Woman?” The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 114, no. 3, (October 2017): 297–328.  

Kitzmiller, Erika M. “‘You Can’t Control Me!’: Cultivating Authority in a Struggling Urban High School.” Teachers College Record, 115, no. 12, (December 2013): 1 – 43. 

Kitzmiller, Erika M. “Imperial Fantasies: Children’s Literature in the White City.” Clio: A Journal of Literature, History, and the Philosophy of History, 43, no. 1, (Fall 2013): 33-53.  

Kitzmiller, Erika M. “Witnessing the Power of El Sistema in Urban Communities: Sister Cities Girlchoir.” Bank Street Occasional Papers, 2013, no. 30, (October 2013): 110 – 120.

Policy Briefs

Rodriguez, Akira Drake. Daniel Aldana Cohen, Erika Kitzmiller, Kira McDonald, David I. Backer, Neilay Shah, Ian Gavigan, Xan Lillehei, A. L. McCullough, Al-Jalil Gault, Emma Glasser, Nick Graetz, Rachel Mulbry, and Billy Fleming. Green New Deal for Public Schools. Philadelphia: climate + community project, 2021.

Rodriguez, Akira Drake, Daniel Aldana Cohen, Kira McDonald, Nick Graetz, Erika Kitzmiller, David I. Backer, and Billy Fleming. A Green Stimulus for K-12 Schools. Philadelphia: climate + community project, 2021.

Op-Eds, Commentaries, and Public Scholarship

Kitzmiller, Erika M. and Akira Drake Rodriguez, “The link between educational inequality and infrastructure,” The Washington Post, August 6, 2021.

Rodriguez, Akira Drake, Erika Kitzmiller, and Daniel Aldana Cohen, “Now is our chance to rebuild U.S. public schools to address both climate change and racial inequality,” Time, July 30, 2021.

Kitzmiller, Erika M. and Lauren Overton, "As Children Develop Their Gender Identities, Educators and Families Must Support Them," Barnard Top 5, June 1, 2021.

Domers, Ted and Erika M. Kitzmiller, “Students as Collaborators in Research-Practice Partnerships: A commentary on the April 2021 issue,” Phi Delta Kappan, May 3, 2021.

Rodriguez, Akira Drake and Erika M. Kitzmiller, “Philly’s School District is Halting Reopenings. It Should’ve Listened to Teachers Earlier,” Philadelphia Inquirer, November 11, 2020.

Kitzmiller, Erika M. “Re-opening Schools Isn’t Worth the Risk,” New York Daily News, July 19, 2020.

Kitzmiller, Erika M. “Private Funding for Public Schools,” Phi Kappa Phi Forum, Spring 2019. 

Kitzmiller, Erika M. and Adele Bruni Ashley, “Remaining Silent is a Political Act,” The Hechinger Report, November 8, 2018. 

Kitzmiller, Erika M., “Donald Trump and teaching in a democracy: Where did we go wrong?,” The Hechinger Report, November 10, 2016.

Kitzmiller, Erika M., “What elite universities can learn from Alexander Hamilton,” Reuters, June 2, 2016.

Kitzmiller, Erika M. “More than a Bake Sale: Private Funding for Public Schools,” Teachers College Record, Commentary, February 9, 2015.  

Kitzmiller, Erika M.  “Philadelphia to Corporate Ed Reformers: No Contract, No Peace,” Dissent, November 1, 2014.

Kitzmiller, Erika M. “Education and Equality of Opportunity,” Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia, February 2014.

Book Chapters

Kitzmiller, Erika M. “Gendered Anxieties Pave the Way for a Separate and Unequal Co-Educational High School,” in New Perspectives on the History of the Twentieth-Century American High School, edited by Kyle P. Steele, New York: Palgrave MacMillan, forthcoming. 

Kitzmiller, Erika M. “Demonstrating the Value of Integrated Data Systems: Data-Use Practice in Four AISP Network Sites.” in Actionable Intelligence: Using Integrated Data Systems to Achieve a More Effective, Efficient, and Ethical Government, edited by John Fantuzzo and Dennis P. Culhane. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2015.

Kitzmiller, Erika M. and TC Burnett, “The AISP Network: Three Organizational Models for Building, Using, and Sustaining Integrated Data Systems.” in Actionable Intelligence: Using Integrated Data Systems to Achieve a More Effective, Efficient, and Ethical Government, edited by John Fantuzzo and Dennis P. Culhane. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2015.