Kevin Conway

  • Another View of Educational Policymaking Since Brown

    One theme of the work of the Law School’s Lubar Center for Public Policy Research and Civic Education is a focus on K–12 education law and policy. This is one of six colleague reactions interspersed in an essay written by Alan J. Borsuk, the Law School’s senior fellow in law and public policy.

  • The Problem Is Us

    One theme of the work of the Law School’s Lubar Center for Public Policy Research and Civic Education is a focus on K–12 education law and policy. This is one of six colleague reactions interspersed in an essay written by Alan J. Borsuk, the Law School’s senior fellow in law and public policy.

  • Add Race and Racism to List of Reasons Reforms Flounder

    One theme of the work of the Law School’s Lubar Center for Public Policy Research and Civic Education is a focus on K–12 education law and policy. This is one of six colleague reactions interspersed in an essay written by Alan J. Borsuk, the Law School’s senior fellow in law and public policy.

  • The Body Politic Writ Large Does Not Care

    One theme of the work of the Law School’s Lubar Center for Public Policy Research and Civic Education is a focus on K–12 education law and policy. This is one of six colleague reactions interspersed in an essay written by Alan J. Borsuk, the Law School’s senior fellow in law and public policy.

  • Struggling to Read, Struggling to Find Help

    Once a week last spring, Kermaine Petty took a break from a busy professional and personal life and logged on to Zoom to review the rules of reading. During one session, Petty and his tutor, Tommy Baas, started with why a c sometimes softens to sound like an s—typically, when it comes before an e,…

  • Marquette Poll Finds National Majorities Think Parents and Government Could Improve Schools

    Parents—that’s who the largest percent of Americans think can have an effect on improving the quality of schools. And whom do people look to the least to help with school improvement? The federal government. The Marquette Law School Poll asked a national sample of 1,005 adults in June 2024 whether they thought the federal government,…

  • Are There Any Solutions to the Problems?

    American education history is filled with demands from on high for better student success that have solved little. The current surge of reading reforms will test whether top-down policymaking works.

  • Marquette’s top 10 news media moments of 2023

    With 2023 coming to an end, the Office of University Relations shares Marquette’s top 10 news media moments of the year.

  • So Simple, So Complex, So Human

    The yellow sheet of paper offers an easy-to-understand gateway into a complicated world for the ordinary renter. “Your landlord has started a court case to evict you,” it begins. Three short sections on the one-page sheet are labeled: Act. Get Informed. Get Help. The fact that, since June 2023, the sheet is being offered to…

  • Chief Norman wants your trust

    Jeffrey Norman, a Milwaukee native and Marquette lawyer, emphasizes collaboration and community partnership.