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Milliken at 50: Looking Back to Imagine Forward

Sat, April 13, 3:05 to 4:35pm, Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 100, Room 113C

Session Type: Symposium

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Heading this year’s theme “to look back, but to imagine forward,” we return to one of the most consequential educational decisions ever issued by the Supreme Court: Milliken v. Bradley. Education researchers have long positioned Milliken as the bookend to possibilities for inclusive democracy opened by Brown. The constricted scale and focus of school finance, school choice, and standardized testing reforms of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century reforms have grown out of the majority ruling in Milliken. Using a combination of political geography, critical legal analysis, and historical study, this proposed panel examines Milliken’s history at the municipal, metropolitan, and national level, thus studying the continual influence of Milliken on our present.

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