Academics

BOOKS:

• Courts and Kids: Pursuing Educational Equity Through the State Courts ( U of Chicago Press, 2009)
• NCLB at the Crossroads: Reexamining the Federal Effort to Close the Achievement Gap ( with Jessica R. Wolff ( Teachers College Press, 2009)
• Moving Every Child Ahead: From NCLB Hype to Meaningful Educational Opportunity ( with Jessica R. Wolff) ( Teachers College Press, 2008)
• Equality and Education (with Arthur R. Block), Princeton University Press, 1985.
• Educational Policy Making and the Courts: An Empirical Study of judicial ACTIVISM (with Arthur R. Block), University of Chicago Press, 1982.
• Government and Power in West Africa (with Robert S. Jordan and Caroline Ifeka), Faber and Faber, London, 1969; Africana Publishers, New York, 1969.

ARTICLES:

•   Safeguarding the Right to Sound Basic Education in Times of Fiscal Constraint, Vol. 75, ALBANY LAW REVIEW (2012)

•        The Right to Comprehensive Educational opportunity, 47 harvard civil rights-civil liberties law review 49 (2012)

• Educational Opportunity Is Achievable and Affordable, Phi Delta Kappan, volume 93, Issue 6, pp. 62-65, (March, 2012)( with Jessica R. Wolff).

·       We Can Overcome Poverty’s Impact on School Success, Education Week,Volume 31, Issue 17, pp. 24-25 ( January 18, 2012) ( with Jessica R. Wolff).

·       When Schools Depend on Handouts, N.Y Times, Op-Ed, August 26, 2011 ( with Jessica R. Wolff).

·       CFE v. State of New York: Past, Present, and Future, 13 NYSBA Gov’t Law & Pol’y J.24 ( Summer, 2011)

·       Judicial Activism and Public Policy, The Judges journal, volume 50, no.1, March, 2011.

·       The Kids Are Not Alright, The american Interest, Volume VI, No. 3, January/February, 2011

·       Budget Cuts and Kids’ Constitutional Rights,  Teachers College Record, May 10, 2010,http://www.tcrecord.org , No. 15972

·        Educational Budget Cuts: Unconscionable ---- and Unconstitutional, Huffington Post, February 8, 2010.

·        Forum: Many Schools are Still Inadequate, Now What?, Education Next, Volume 9, No. 4, Fall 2009 9 with Eric Hanushek and Alfred Lindseth

·        Assessing ‘Success’ in School Finance Litigations, Education Week, Volume 28, Issue 36, Online, july 8, 2009 ( with bruce d. baker).

·        Slashing the City Schools Budget is Illegal, Unfair and Unwise, New York Daily News, December 19, 2008

·        City Breaks Faith With Schools, New York Daily News, May 25, 2008

·        Sleepless After Seattle? There’s Still Hope For Equal Educational Opportunity,  EDUCATION WEEK, 32-33 ( February 13, 2008).

·        Equal opportunity and the Courts, PHI DELTA KAPPAN, Volume 89, Number 6, 432-439 ( 2008).

Ÿ         Poverty, “Meaningful” Educational Opportunity, and the Necessary Role of the Courts, NORTH CAROLINA LAW REVIEW  Volume 85, 1467-1543 ( 2007)

Ÿ         The Need for Comprehensive Educational Equity, inTHE PRICE WE PAY: ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL CONSEQUENCES OF INADEQUATE EDUCATION ( Clive R. Belfield and Henry M. Levin, Eds), Brookings Institution Press, 2007.

Ÿ         Toward a Comprehensive System of Education for All Children, TEACHERS COLLEGE RECORD Volume 109, Number 7, 1836-1843 (2007) ( with Edmund W. Gordon)

Ÿ         Professional Rigor, Public Engagement and Judicial Review: A Proposal For Enhancing The Validity of Education Adequacy Studies, TEACHERS COLLEGE RECORD Volume 109, Number 6, 1303-1373 (2007)

·         Rush to Slash Class Size Will Hurt Our Schools, THE NEW YORK DAILY NEWS,     April 23, 2007

·          School Desegregation: Vital for Educational Equity ---- and for Judicial Integrity, THE  PUBLIC SQUARE, March, 2007 (with Amy Stuart Wells)

Ÿ         Nix Mike’s Flawed School Funding Fix, THE NEW YORK DAILY NEWS, January 25, 2007.

Ÿ         Robbing Peter to Pay Paul: Weighted-Student Funding Is Not the ‘100 Percent Solution,’ EDUCATION WEEK, November 29, 2006 (with Bruce Baker)

 Stuck in the Stone Age: By Ignoring the Court, Pataki Holds Back City Schools, THE NEW YORK  TIMES, May 1, 2005

• Adequacy Litigations: A New Path to Equity in Janice Petrovich and Amy Stuart Wells, eds., BRINGING EQUITY BACK: RESEARCH FOR A NEW ERA IN AMERICAN EDUCATIONAL POLICY (Teachers College Press, 2005)
• Proposed Budgets Still Ignore School Kids, ALBANY TIMES UNION, March 26, 2005
• Court-Ordered Reform of New York State School Aid in Lauri Johnson, Mary E. Finn and Rebecca Lewis, eds. URBAN EDUCATION WITH AN ATTITUDE (State University of New York Press, 2005).
• Ensuring Educational Opportunity for All Our Kids, EDUCATION WEEK, Aug 11, 2004
• Book Note, Peter Shrag, Final Test: The Battle for Adequacy in America's Schools, 79 PEABODY JOURNAL OF EDUCATION 141-143 (2004).
• Highly Qualified" Teachers: Pretense or Legal Requirement? 85 PHI DELTA KAPPAN 690 (May, 2004) (with Molly Hunter).
• Remarks, Symposium: Brown v. Board of Education at Fifty: Have We Achieved Its Goals? 78ST. JOHN'S LAW REVIEW, 263-275 ( 2004).
• Of Course Money Matters: Why the Arguments to the Contrary Never Added Up, (CFE, January, 2004) (with Joseph J. Wardenski).
• Education Adequacy, Democracy and the Courts in Christopher Edley, Timothy Ready and Catherine Snow, eds., ACHIEVING HIGH EDUCATIONAL STANDARDS FOR ALL  ( National Academy Press, 2002).
• Rapid Response, Radical Reform: The Story of School Finance Litigation in Vermont 31 JOURNAL OF LAW & EDUCATION 167 (2002) (with Jeffrey Metzler).
• Discussion: Do State Governments Matter? in EDUCATION IN THE 21ST CENTURY: MEETING THE CHALLENGES OF A CHANGING WORLD (Yolanda K. Kodrycki, ed.; Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, June 2002).
• Funding Quality Education in New York 72 THE CPA JOURNAL 30 (Feb, 2002) (with Joseph J. Wardenski).
• Still Shortchanging the City's Schools, THE NEW YORK TIMES, January 26, 2002.
• The Continuing Imperative For Education Equity, EDUCATION WEEK, April 24, 2002.
• Book Review: On Equal Terms: The Constitutional Politics of Educational Opportunity. Douglas S. Reed. Princeton University Press, 2001. 256 pp.  104  TEACHERS COLLEGE RECORD 986 (2002), http//www.tcrecord.org, Id No. 10854.
• Fiscal Equity Litigation and the Democratic Imperative 24 Journal of Education Finance 23 (1998).
• Commentary - Rodriguez Revisited: An Optimists' View  1998 ANNUAL REVIEW OF AMERICAN LAW, Issue 2, 289 (1998).
• Efficacy and Engagement: The Remedies Problem Posed by Sheff v. O'Neill -- And a Proposed Solution (with Robert L. Hughes) 29 Connecticut Law Review 1115 (1997).
• Special Educational Inclusion and the Courts: A Proposal for a New Remedial Approach (with Robert L. Hughes) 25 Journal of Law & Education 523 (1996).
• Schools, Communities and the Courts: A Dialogic Approach to Education Reform, (with Robert L. Hughes) 14 Yale Law & Policy Review 99  (1996).
• Fiscal Equity in Education:  Deconstructing the Reigning Myths and Facing Reality 21 New York University Review of Law & Social Change 301 (1995).
• Tinker, Hazelwood and the Remedial Role of the Courts in Education Litigation, 69 ST. JOHN'S LAW REVIEW 539 (1995).
• Values Engagement and the Schools, Institute for American Values Working Paper, 1993.
• National Values and Community Values, Part I: Gender Equity and Education, (with Anne W. Murdaugh), 21 Journal of Law & Education 155 (1992).
• National Values and Community Values, Part II: Equal Educational Opportunity for Limited English Proficient Students, (with Anne W. Murdaugh), 21 Journal of Law & Education 335 (1992).
• Teacher Performance Assessment: The Changing State of the Law, 5 Journal of Personnel Evaluation in Education 227 (1991).
• Special Education and the Court's New Role in Justice and School Systems:  The Role of the Courts in Education Litigation (Flicker, B., ed.,Temple University Press,1990).
• Legal Issues Concerning Teacher Evaluation in Handbook on Teacher Evaluation (Darling-Hammond, L. & Millman, J., eds., National Council on Measurement in Education and Sage Publishing Co., 1990).
• Schools, Values and the Courts, 7 Yale Law & Policy Review 275 (1989).
• Values Inculcation and the Schools:  The Need for a New Pierce Compromise in Public Values, Private Schools (N. Devins, ed., Stanford U. Series on Education & Public Policy, 1989).
• Testing, Public Policy and the Courts in Test Policy and the Politics of Opportunity Allocation: The Workplace and the Law (B. Gifford, ed., National Commission on Testing and Public Policy and Keunder-Nighoff Publishing Co., 1989).
• Legal Issues Concerning Bias in Testing in Bias Issues in Teacher Certification (Allan R., Nassif, P. and Elliot, M., eds., 1988).
• Structural Discrimination and the Rights of the Disabled, 74 Georgetown Law Journal 1435 (1986).
• Disparate Impact of Teacher Competency Testing on Minorities:  Don't Blame the Test-Takers -- or the Tests, 4 Yale Law & Policy Review 375 (1986).
• Recent Legal Issues in Competency Testing for Teachers in Testing for Teacher Certification (Gorth, W. & Chernoff, M., eds., 1985).
• Faculty Desegregation:  The Law and Its Implementation (with Arthur R. Block), ERIC/CUE Urban Directory Services Monograph No. 86, Fall, 1983.
• The Courts' New Role, Social Policy, Spring, 1982.
• Educational Voucher Reform:  Empirical Insights from the Experience of New York's Schools for the Handicapped, 14 Urban Lawyer 441 (1982).
• Implementation of Court Mandates Concerning Special Education:  The Problems and the Potential, 10 Journal of Law & Education 335 (1981).
• Competence Assessment and the Courts:  An Overview of the State of the Law (with Arthur R. Block), in The Assessment of Occupational Competence, ERIC Document No. ED 192-169, 1980.
• Non-Public Schools for Special education in New York State:  An Experiment in Alternative Education, The Forum, June, 1979. 
• Recent Developments in Equal Employment Opportunity Law and Their effect on Teacher Credentialing Practices, A.A.C.T.E. Annual Meeting Proceedings, Washington, D.C., 1977.
• The Law, the Courts and Teacher Credentialing Reform in Licensing and Accreditation in Education (Levitov, N., ed., 1976).
• Dropout Prevention:  A Legal Route, New York University Education Quarterly, Winter 1975.
• New York City's School Decentralization Law, Two and Half Years Later, 2 Journal of Law & Education 1 (1973).
• Undisclosed Informant Information and the Fourth Amendment:  A Search for Meaningful Standards, 81 Yale Law Journal 703 (1972).
• Community Development in Africa, Peace Corps Volunteer, July 1967.