Jan 2016 Forum Publications Blogs Etc

January 2016 Forum Panelists’ Publications, Blogs, etc.

Detroit Public Schools: Quality, Accountability, and Governance

Kristi Bowman:

• MSU Law Biography Page

• Social Science Research Network (Biography page with multiple scholarly papers concerning urban education)

• A New Strategy for Pursuing Racial and Ethnic Equality in Public Schools

  (Describes inequality and racial disparities within schools both in past and present and proposes a new strategy for dealing with poor learning environments)

• Commemorating Brown and the Civil Rights Act: Learning from the Past and Hoping for the Future

• Front Matter for: The Pursuit of Racial and Ethnic Equality in American Public Schools

  (Touches on the significance of both law and education and the potential for reform in educational institutions through law)

• Pursuing Educational Opportunities for Latino/a Students

  (Deals with broader civil rights and socioeconomic issues regarding Latino/a students in the U.S.)

• State Takeovers of School Districts and Related Litigation: Michigan as a Case Study

  (Looks at state involvement and intervention within a school district fiscal crisis and the role of “emergency manager”)

• Educational Policy and the Law

  (Examines educational law and policy in the elementary and secondary school setting and analyzes how policy problems become legal matters)

Dan Varner

• Excellent Schools Detroit:

• The Huffington Post:

  Detroit’s Education Manifesto

  Why Candidates for Detroit City Council and Mayor Need an Education Policy

Gary Naeyaert

• Great Lakes Education Project http://www.glep.org/author/gnaeyaert/

• Articles that quote Gary Naeyaert:

  Bills to Restructure Detroit K-12 District Finally Proposed

  Detroit Public Schools Borrows $121.2M as Deficit Grows

  More than Half of School of Choice Students End up Moving Schools Again, Study Shows

Sarah Reckhow

• MSU Political Science Department Biography Page

• Scholars Strategy Network: Can Philanthropists Engineer Effective School Reforms?

• MSU Today: How Charter School Foes are Failing

  (Describes why opponents of the charter schools educational reform movement are failing to make effective arguments)

• Philanthropy Roundtable: Small Change?

  (Review and Commentary by Jay P. Greene on Sarah Reckhow’s book, Follow the Money: How Foundation Dollars Change Public School Politics)

• Inside Philanthropy:

  What a New Study Says About K-12 Funding Trends (References Sarah Reckhow’s research)