Eva Moskowitz - Education, Teaching, and Family

Education, Teaching, and Family

Moskowitz grew up in Harlem and went to school in the City's District 5. She graduated from Stuyvesant High School, where "he thought half of the teachers were incompetent", according to journalist Steven Brill, found widespread student cheating and a coverup by the principal, according to journalist Jeff Coplon, 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 was an undergraduate at the University of Pennsylvania, where, she said, a professor criticized her writing ability and she studied writing until she did it well, influencing her prioritizing writing by her students at Success Academy Charter Schools. She received a Ph.D. in history from Johns Hopkins University.

She taught at Vanderbilt University (history), University of Virginia, and City University of New York (College of Staten Island) She was the director of the children's literacy program ReadNet and taught civics at the Prep for Prep school.

She married Eric Grannis, a classmate at Stuyvesant, and they have three children, Culver, Dillon, and Hannah. She has a brother.