Education Rights Center

Education Rights Center

at Howard University School of Law

A Research Center Promoting Educational Equity for All Students

Mission

The Education Rights Center’s mission is to promote qualitatively equal educational opportunities for low-income, rural, and minority students by identifying and measuring the various indicators of educational inequality in primary and secondary schools. In furtherance of this mission, the Center’s activities include empirical research, legal analysis, incorporation of social science, and engagement with stakeholder communities and policy makers.

Activities

analyzing data in the various areas of educational inequality
synthesizing social science research on the various areas of educational inequality

providing the legal framework to evaluate relevant social science and data

supporting advocates for educational reform

Special Projects

Discipline Rights

Special Education Rights

Ability Grouping/ Access to High Quality Curriculum Rights

State Constitutional Education Rights

News and Recent Posts
Education Rights Center releases report on the Elementary
  and Secondary Education Act's failure to ensure equity for
  poor students or to incentivize the deconcentration of poverty.
Full Report

The Education Rights Center, along with the national coalition
for school diversity, issues key principles regarding diversity that
must be included in the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.
    Joint Statement on ESEA
    Prior Joint Policy Statements on Diversity

Education Rights Center co-sponsors school integration
    conference at Howard University School of Law on
    November 13th. The conference will feature the
    Assistant Secretary of the Office for Civil Rights, along
    with several other Obama adminstration officials,
    leading scholars, and civil rights advocates.
    View CSPAN's Video Coverage
    Agenda
    Brochure

Scholars, Advocates, and Policymakers Convene                     Harvard Law School Hosts National Conference on the
    to Discuss Education as a Civil Right Future of School Desegregation


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The Education Rights Center Begins                                         Derek Black, Director, Publishes Article on the Future
    Investigation of Unequal Access to Curriculum                             of School Desegregation


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Derek Black, Director, Publishes Article on the Effects of Racial Isolation on Schools' Ability to
    Provide Adequate Educational Opportunities to All
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