2017-present Cosmos Club, Washington DC
2006-2007 General Research Board Sabbatical Extension Grant, ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ of Maryland, College Park
2005-2006 Distinguished Scholar Teacher, ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ of Maryland, College Park
2004 Imperial Order of the Rising Sun (Gold Rays with Rosette) conferred by the Japanese Foreign Ministry and the Imperial House of Japan for the advancement of U.S.-Japan understanding.
2004-1982 Directory of American Scholars, I:
1997-1998 Woman of the Year, ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ of Maryland College Park.
1994-1995 Distinguished International Service Award, ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ of Maryland College Park.
l991-1992 Fellowship: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Senior Science Fellowship, ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ of Tokyo.
1989 American Educational Press Association Award for Distinguished Learned Article, "Rescuing Civic Learning: Some Prescriptions for the l990s," Theory into Practice. Autumn, 1988: 250-255.
l987 Recipient: Key to the City of Osaka for Mid-Atlantic Region Japan-in-the- Schools Program.
1985 Henry Allan Moe Prize for Excellence in the Arts, New York State Historical Society, for "The Schooling of American Childhood:1820-1920," a chapter in a prize-winning museum catalog, A Century of Childhood, prepared by the Margaret Woodbury Strong Museum, Rochester, New York.
1982 Critics Choice Award: American Educational Studies Association for Regulated Children/Liberated Children: Education in Psychohistorical Perspective.
1977-1976 National Endowment for the Humanities: Independent Fellowship.