Schooling and the State
The "Pierce Compromise" and its Implications for Education Governance
Compulsory Schooling, Public Policy, and the Constitution
State Regulation of Nonpublic Schools
Home Schooling
Discrimination and Private Education
State Aid to Private Schools
Socialization and Student and Teacher Rights
Religious, Political, and Moral Socialization
Opening the School to Alternative Ideas
The Disciplinary Process: The Legalization of Dispute Resolution in Public Schools
Governmental Regularity and School Rules
Gathering the Evidence to Prove the Infraction
Procedural Due Process
Equal Educational Opportunity and Race
The Judicial Response to School Segregation: The Brown Decision
The Progress of School Desegregation: 1954-1968
Desegregation: Evolution of a Constitutional Standard
Desegregation: An Emerging National Standard
End of an Era?
School Desegregation: The Role of the Political Branches
"Second Generation" Problems
Equality and Difference: The Special Challenges of Gender Equity
The Search for a Constitutional Standard
The Legislative Framework: Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972
Equal Educational Opportunity and the Dilemma of Difference: Beyond Race and Gender
Ethnicity and National Origin
Disability: From "Incapable of Benefiting" from an Education to the Right to an "Appropriate" Education
Poverty and Homelessness
Equal Educational Opportunity and School Finance
Interdistrict Inequalities
Intradistrict Inequalities.