The National Commission on Education Excellence and Equity: Hypotheses about Movement Building

In 2013, the congressionally chartered national Commission on Education Equity and Excellence issued unanimous recommendations for P–12 policy changes at the federal, state, and local levels. This remarkably broad consensus, with unusual pragmatism and concreteness, is comprehensive in its scope and predominantly research based. As a clarion call and reform strategy, the commission report, For Each and Every Child, is a successor to A Nation at Risk (1983); the commission’s grand if not grandiose intention was to provide a framework for the next decade or more of nationwide policy struggle. This article, after briefly summarizing the recommendations, focuses on how a movement might be built to advance them

The Governance Crisis, Legal Theory, and Political Ideology

In addressing the administrative problems of today, the author seeks to challenge the doctrinal separation that has evolved between (1) politics and the partisan struggle over political ideology and public policy, and (2) the realm of legal theory, the source of most prescriptions for the reform of legal doctrines and institutions. Part of this challenge entails sketching his argument, detailed elsewhere, that administrative law fails on its own terms to discipline the arbitrariness of bureaucrats and judges. Administrative law fails, in part, because of a deeply fundamental and conceptually flawed reliance on separation of powers anachronisms

Administrative Law: Rethinking Judicial Control Of Bureaucracy

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Changing Places: How Communities Will Improve the Health of Boys of Color

Compiles cross-disciplinary analyses of the challenges boys of color face, how investing in education and community improvement and development could help improve health and well-being outcomes, and the policies and practices needed to support solutions