Distinguished Service to SPSSI award  2007
The Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues

2007 Willystine Goodsell Award   2007
AERA SIG, Research on Women and Education 

Morton Deutsch Award April 2005
First Annual Morton Deutsch Award, Teachers College, Columbia University

Bank Street College May 2002
Honorary Doctoral Degree for Education and Social Justice

Gustav Meyer Award for Scholarship Dedicated to Social Justice 2001
with Lois Weis, for the book, Construction Sites,Teachers College Press

Carolyn Sherif Award, American Psychological Association 2001
Division 35, Division for Psychology of Women

Moyer Lecturer 2001
Invited Lecturer for the Moyer Lecture Series
Muhlenberg College
Muhlenberg, Pennsylvania

Visiting Scholar, University of Auckland, New Zealand 1999
Institute for Maori Studies
Summer Scholar Fellowship

Spencer National Mentoring Award 1998-2000
Spencer Foundation, Chicago Illinois

Lecturer, Harry S. and Elva K. Ganders Distinguished Lecture Series 1998
Syracuse University

Visiting Fellow of the British Psychological Society 1997
Psychology of Women

American Educational Research Association Lectureship Award 1996

Janet Helms Distinguished Scholar Award Cross Cultural Roundtable 1994
Teacher's College, Columbia University

American Educational Studies Association Critic's Choice Award 1993
Disruptive Voices: The possibilities of feminist research

Laura Rowe Williams Award 1992
University of Pennsylvania
Association of Women Faculty and Administrators
For service to women and minority students

Society for Research on Adolescence 1992
Distinguished Book Award Social policy
Framing Dropouts: Notes on the politics of an urban high school

Association of Women in Psychology 1989
Distinguished Publications Award
Women with Disabilities: Essays in psychology, culture and politics

American Educational Research Association 1989
Women Educators Research Award
Sexuality, school and adolescent females: The missing discourse of desire

The Educational Press Award 1987
Distinguished Achievement Award for Excellence in Educational Journalism
"Why Urban Adolescents Drop Into and Out of High School"

Lindback Award for Excellence in Teaching 1987
University of Pennsylvania, Graduate School of Education

Distinguished Teaching Award 1985
University of Pennsylvania, Graduate School of Education