Television, Testimony, Keynotes & Debates
Tedx Talk on a Well-Informed Citizenry
PBS News Hour Interview on Iowa Book and Curriculum Bans
Congressional Testimony on the Federal Role in Public Education and Its Conflict with Private School Vouchers
Harvard Debate on Charter Schools
U.S. Capitol Historical Society Lecture
Cheddar TV: Private School Voucher Litigation and Schoolhouse Burning
AEI Debate on Federal Right to Education
The Damage Report: The Historical Role of Public Education in Our Democracy and the New Threat
Federal Commission Testimony on Federal Role in Education
Center for American Progress event on Brown v. Board of Education Anniversary
Tavis Smiley Show (PBS) on Zero Tolerance
Keynote Address on School Funding and the Right to Education
CSPAN on Racial Integration
Keynote: South Carolina School Boards Association
Book Interview on Free Speech Television and Pacifica Radio
Author of Schoolhouse Burning Derek W. Black speaks with Emma Vigeland on The Conversation about Betsy Devos' attack on America's public education system.
Schoolhouse Burning and South Carolina’s pivotal role in the expansion of the right to education
Selected Newspaper Commentary
NY Times
Affirmative Action Battle at Harvard
Harvard’s Affirmative Action Win
Wall Street Journal
A Constitutional Right to Civics
Washington Post
Problems with Alternative Schools for Young Students
Constitutional Right to Literacy
Betsy DeVos Doubles Down on Her Education Agenda During the Pandemic
Kavanaugh Record Suggests He Would Favor Religious Interests in School Debates
Law Professor: Expect Big Rollback of Civil Rights Enforcement in Education under Trump and DeVos
Oklahoma’s Public Schools Are Starting the Year in Legal Limbo
The Atlantic
The Problem with Police Disciplining Students
The Nation
Bloomberg
Laws Curbing Critical Race Theory May Face Legal Challenges
GOP ‘Culture War’ Limits Teaching on Race in Diverse Classrooms
Mother Jones
Trump and DeVos Say They’ll Withhold Money From Schools for Not Reopening. Can They?
Trump Says He’ll Revoke Schools’ Tax Exemption for “Indoctrination.” He Can’t Do That, Can He?
The New Republic
Red States' Legally Dubious Strategy to Destroy Obamacare
Philadelphia Inquirer
Teachers cheer the end of the DeVos era — but what comes next under President-elect Biden?
Selected Radio Appearances
Does the Constitution Guarantee the Right to Literacy? on
The Fundamental Right to Education on
Discipline, Suspensions, and the School-to-Prison Pipeline on Here and Now, Syndicated Baltimore Public Radio
Classroom Segregation: Better to Be White and Poor on Virginia Public Radio, With Good Reason
Ending Zero Tolerance interviews on
Northeast Public Radio
Wisconsin Public Radio
South Carolina Public Radio
Connecticut Public Radio
Ohio Public Radio
The Challenge of Proving Intentional Segregation on Arkansas Public Radio
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