Education, Equality and National Citizenship
Raising the floor: Progress and setbacks in the struggle for quality mathematics education for all
May 08, 2006 08:45 AM to 09:45 AM
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Summary: |
Biography: Goodwin Liu is an assistant professor of law at Boalt Hall. His primary areas
of expertise are constitutional law, education policy, civil rights, and the Supreme Court.
He has published widely on these subjects in law reviews and general media. His latest
work is “Education, Equality, and National Citizenship” (forthcoming Yale Law Journal
2006). With Boalt Hall dean Christopher Edley, he is co-director of a multi-year,
interdisciplinary project called “Rethinking Rodriguez: Education as a Fundamental
Right” in the newly launched Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute for Race, Ethnicity, and
Diversity. Before joining the Boalt faculty in 2003, Professor Liu was an appellate
litigator at O’Melveny & Myers in Washington. He clerked for Justice Ruth Bader
Ginsburg at the Supreme Court and for Judge David Tatel on the U.S. Court of Appeals
for the D.C. Circuit. A Stanford alumnus, Rhodes Scholar, and graduate of Yale Law
School, Professor Liu serves on the board of directors of the ACLU of Northern
California, the American Constitution Society in Washington, and Chinese for Affirmative
Action in San Francisco. In January 2006, he testified before the Senate Judiciary
Committee on the nomination of Judge Samuel Alito, Jr. to the Supreme Court. |
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Since Brown v. Board of Education, law and policy in pursuit of equal educational opportunity have focused on eliminating inequality between schools or between districts within states. However, it has long been the case—and it remains so today—that the most serious educational inequality in America exists not within states, but across states. Despite the persistence of this inequality and its disproportionate burden on poor and minority students, who tend to live in poor states, the problem has evaded our constitutional radar and draws little policy attention. Professor Liu argues that interstate disparities in educational opportunity stand in tension with the Fourteenth Amendment guarantee of national citizenship and that ameliorating the disparities is a constitutional duty of the federal government. |
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