Douglas Reed

B.A., University of California, Santa Cruz; M.A., M.Phil, Ph.D., Yale University. Professor Reed's teaching and research interests center on American constitutional law, judicial politics and the politics of education, with a focus on the constitutional and political meanings of equality. His book On Equal Terms: The Constitutional Politics of Educational Opportunity was published by Princeton University Press (2001). His research, focusing on racial politics, federalism, and educational policy-making, has been published in Law and Society Review, Social Science Quarterly, and American Journal of Education Research, among other journals. He is currently writing a book tentatively entitled "Building the Federal Schoolhouse: Public Education and American Political Development." The book focuses on the local politics of federal claims of authority over public education. A former Research Fellow at the Brookings Institution, he has also taught at Yale University. He has received a Spencer Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellowship from the National Academy of Education, and was named a Carnegie Scholar by the Carnegie Corporation of New York.