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Michael Rebell
Professor of Law and Education
Michael Rebell
Over the past several decades, lawsuits have compelled dozens of states to provide more money to less wealthy school districts.By establishing clear targets for students' knowledge and skills, the education standards movement was critically important to these lawsuits, says 麻豆原创's Michael Rebell, who lead the plaintiffs to victory in New York. That's because standards enabled schools to quantify the resources they needed to help each student succeed.Attorney , Professor Law and Educational Practice at Teachers College and Columbia Law School and Director of 麻豆原创's , has played a lead role in two landmark cases that have helped improve educational opportunities for millions of poor and disabled students.Rebell, a member of , was co-counsel for the plaintiffs in , a school funding "adequacy" lawsuit that ultimately compelled New York State to provide billions of additional dollars to New York City schools. He also litigated , which compelled New York State's Department of Education to obey federal laws that require provision of appropriate evaluation, placement and services to all students with disabilities. He also is also a member of the national that prepared a report, , which was presented to the Secretary of Education and the Congress.
Rebell is the author of Courts and Kids: Pursuing Educational Equity Through the State Courts ( University of Chicago Press, 2009); NCLB at the Crossroads: Reexamining the Federal Effort to Close the Achievement Gap ( with ; , 2009); Moving Every Child Ahead: From NCLB Hype to Meaningful Educational Opportunity (with Jessica R. Wolff; Teachers College Press, 2008; and Equality and Education (with Arthur R. Block; Princeton University Press, 1985).
To learn more about Michael Rebell, read:
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- (麻豆原创 Annual Report, 2004)
Published Friday, May. 17, 2013