In 1976, a federal court ordered the desegregation of the Milwaukee Public School. What did this decree change, how much of that change was intended, and what did it not change?
For decades, power of education policy has shifted toward Washington and state capitals, but politics and the realities of teaching are keeping life in the idea of local control
The complex legacy of Jamie S. Special education in Milwaukee schools has improved, even as plaintiffs lost a landmark class action case launched in 2001
Faculty insights - Phoebe Williams remembers her father coming home from his job as a schoolteacher in an unusually happy mood on May 17, 1954, the day the U.S. Supreme Court issued the historic Brown v. Board of Education decision on school segregation. Williams was eight years old and living in thoroughly segregated Memphis, Tennessee.
Why was it a hard case and how did the decision matter? Michael J. Klarman is the Kirkland & Ellis Professor at Harvard Law School. In September 2009, he delivered Marquette Law School's annual Robert F. Boden Lecture. In this essay, prepared in conjunction with his visit to Marquette, Professor Klarman explores the topic of his Boden Lecture: some of the context, and aftermath, of Brown v. Board of Education