Rima Shore

Rima Shore is a researcher and writer who lives and works in New York City. Until 2015, she held the Adelaide Weismann Chair of Educational Leadership and chaired the Educational Leadership Department at Bank Street College of Education. Her work has addressed Russian literature, the arts, education, and women’s studies.

Shore is the author of What Kids Need: Today’s Best Ideas for Nurturing, Teaching, and Protecting Young Children and Rethinking the Brain: New Insights into Early Development. She also co-authored The Penguin International Dictionary of Contemporary Biography with Edward Vernoff and has contributed fiction, essays, and translations to numerous publications.