Professional Background
Adjunct Associate Professor of Law and Education
Educational Background
- A.B., Harvard College
- LL.B., Yale Law School
Scholarly Interests
- Equity in Education
- Role of the Courts in Institutional Reform Litigations
- Social Reform
Selected Publications
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.
Articles:
- Forum: Many Schools are Still Inadequate, Now What?, Education Next, Volume 9, No. 4, Fall 2009 with Eric Hanushek and Alfred Lindseth
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Equal opportunity and the Courts, PHI DELTA KAPPAN, Volume 89, Number 6, 432-439 ( 2008).
- Poverty, Meaningful Educational Opportunity and the Necessary Role of the Courts,85 North Carolina Law Review 102 (2007).
- Professional Rigor, Public Engagement and Judicial Review: A Proposal For Enhancing The Validity of Education Adequacy Studies, TEACHERS COLLEGE RECORD Volume 109, Number 6, (2007)
- 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)
- 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).
Michael A. Rebell
Adjunct Associate Professor of Law and Education
Phone: 212-678-4144
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Office Hours: Fall 2009 Tuesdays 2:00-4:00pm
Office Location: Zankel 212-D