Is Law Undermining Public Education?
A forum co-sponsored by Common Good and the AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies, Nov. 5, 2003 Panelist Biographies Richard Arum is Associate Professor of Sociology and Chair of the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences in the Professions at New York University. He is the author of Judging School Discipline: The Crisis of Moral Authority in American Schools (Harvard, 2003), which examines decades of evidence to uncover how the developing legal context has shaped school discipline. Mr. Arum has also published in numerous scholarly journals, including the Annual Review of Sociology, Sociology of Education, and American Sociological Review. He holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California, Berkeley, and a M.Ed. in Teaching and Curriculum from the Harvard University Graduate School of Education. Mr. Arum worked for six years as a teacher in the Oakland Public Schools. Alan D. Bersin is Superintendent of Public Education for San Diego City Schools. Previou
