Education
Dr. Monaghan was educated at the Perse School for Girls, Cambridge, England. She received her B.A. and M.A. from Oxford University, Oxford, England, where she attended Lady Margaret Hall and studied Greats (classics), receiving first-class honors in Honour Moderations. She received a Fulbright travel award and was sponsored by the English Speaking Union to teach as a graduate assistant at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, where she studied with Alexander Turyn, taught classics, and received an M.A. in classical Greek. After marrying journalist Charles Monaghan in 1958, she moved to Brooklyn, N.Y., and had three children. In her late 30s, she entered the reading education department of the Ferkauf Graduate School of Education at Yeshiva University in New York City, where she studied with Lawrence Kasdon, Susan Sardy, and Moshe Anisfeld. She received an Ed.D. in 1980, with a dissertation on Noah Webster and his blueback speller. Richard L. Venezky was a member of her dissertation committee and remained a mentor.
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