Author

Joshua Dunn

    Author Website: http://www.uccs.edu/~jdunn/


    Author Bio:

    Joshua Dunn (PhD, University of Virginia, 2002) is associate professor of Political Science at the University of Colorado-Colorado Springs.



    His research focuses on judicial policymaking and in particular the influence of the courts on education. He is the author of Complex Justice: The Case of Missouri v. Jenkins (University of North Carolina Press 2008) and the co-editor, with Martin West, of From Schoolhouse to Courthouse: The Judiciary’s Role in American Education (Brookings 2009). He also co-authors, with Martha Derthick, a quarterly article on law and education for Education Next.


Articles

2+2=Litigation

New front opens in the math wars

Fall 2010 / Vol. 10, No. 4


No Federal Case

Court says charter school is not a state actor

Summer 2010 / Vol. 10, No. 3


Strange Bedfellows

Students find unexpected ally in the Christian Right

Spring 2010 / Vol. 10, No. 2


Supreme Modesty

From strip searches to school funding, the Court treads lightly

Winter 2010 / Vol. 10, No. 1


Timeout

Schools Win in Court

Spring 2009 / Vol. 9, No. 2


Language Barriers

Arizonans battle federal court order to spend more

Winter 2009 / Vol. 9, No. 1


Home Schoolers Strike Back

California case centers on parents' rights

Fall 2008 / Vol. 8, No. 4


Court Jousters

Plaintiffs exploit weaknesses in NCLB

Summer 2008 / Vol. 8, No. 3


Free and Appropriate

Parent's wealth muddies special-education tuition case

Spring 2008 / Vol. 8, No. 2


Doubtful Jurisprudence

Court offers schools little guidance

Winter 2008 / Vol. 8, No. 1


Courts and Choice

Testing the constitutionality of charters and vouchers

Spring 2007 / Vol. 7, No. 2


The Enforcers

Parents may gain right to sue over NCLB

Fall 2007 / Vol. 7, No. 4


Judging Money

When courts decide how to spend taxpayer dollars

Winter 2007 / Vol. 7, No. 1


Affirmative Action Docketed

The Supreme Court takes up race-based school assignment

Winter 2007 / Vol. 7, No. 1


Virtual Legality

Unions and Home Schoolers Attack Internet Education

Fall 2006 / Vol. 6, No. 4


Florida Grows a Lemon

Florida’s supreme court is no stranger to political warfare. Before the U.S. Supreme Court decided Bush v. Gore in favor of George W. Bush, the Florida court had ruled in favor of Al Gore. And the same court played a crucial role in the state’s extraction of an $11.3 billion settlement from the tobacco industry [...]

Summer 2006 / Vol. 6, No. 3


A Setback in Dover

Last rites for Intelligent Design

Spring 2006 / Vol. 6, No. 2


Blog Posts/Multimedia

Money and Good Intentions Won’t Fix Our Schools

Last week the media reported the apparently shocking news that the Kansas City, Missouri School District school board voted 5-4 to close nearly half of its schools, 26 of 61 schools in the district. But those familiar with the district were not surprised. The real question is not why the school board has decided to close so many schools but why it took them so long.

03/16/2010

Is Arne Duncan’s new civil rights crusade unconstitutional?

On Monday, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan announced that his department will expand its efforts in civil rights enforcement. Like everything this sounds fantastic in the abstract. Who after all publicly declares that they oppose protecting civil rights? The details, though, paint a more troublesome picture.

03/10/2010

Christian Law Firms Are Leading Defenders of Free Speech in Schools

In “Strange Bedfellows,” Martha Derthick and I wrote on a case out of Texas, Palmer v. Waxahachie Independent School District, that brought two unusual groups together on the same side: supporters of John Edwards and Christian conservatives.

02/17/2010

Legal Beat Update

The new issue of Education Next includes a “legal beat” column by Martha Derthick and myself that discusses three important rulings from the Supreme Court’s last term. “Receiving almost no attention but potentially of utmost significance,” we wrote, “was Horne v. Flores, a case about English-language learning in which the court divided narrowly along ideological lines, with Kennedy joining the five-member majority.” Anyone doubting the potential significance of the Supreme Court’s decision in Horne v. Flores should consider two recent developments in Florida and Colorado.

12/16/2009

Colorado Supreme Court Jumps into the Abyss of School Finance

Colorado’s state Supreme Court defied national trends on Monday, handing down a decision in Lobato v. State that thrusts the judiciary into the middle of the state’s educational finance disputes.

10/20/2009

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