Kenneth Wang Professor of Law at St.
John's University School of Law where she has served as Associate
Academic Dean (1992-94), Director of the Center for Law and Public
Policy (1994-97), and the Harold McNiece Professor of Law (1998-99)
and teaches constitutional, administrative, and local government
law and a seminar on children and the law.
Prior to joining the St. John's faculty, she was an Associate
Professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education where she
taught education law, school finance, and language policy in the
Administration, Planning, and Social Policy Program and served on
the faculty of the Institute for Educational Management. From 1985
to 1995, she was a trustee of the State University of New York
where she chaired the Academic Planning Committee. She also has
chaired the Education and the Law Committee of the Association of
the Bar of the City of New York (1993-96) and the Section on
Education Law of the Association of American Law Schools (1996,
2003).
She has been a recipient of St. John's University's Outstanding
Faculty Achievement Award (2003) and the University's highest
honor, the St. Vincent de Paul Teacher-Scholar Award (2005).
Her research has been supported by the Soros Foundation, the
National Science Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Spencer
Foundation, the United States Department of Education, and the
Milton and Mark DeWolfe Howe Funds of Harvard University. Her
most recent book, Same, Different, Equal: Rethinking Single-Sex
Schooling (Yale University Press, 2003) has been selected as
an "Outstanding Academic Title for 2005" by Choice
Magazine. She also is the author of Visions of Schooling:
Conscience, Community, and Common Education (Yale University
Press, 2000) and Equal Education Under Law: Legal Rights and
Federal Policy in the Post "Brown" Era (St. Martin's Press,
1986) as well as numerous articles, book chapters, and commentaries
on educational governance, gender equity, freedom of expression,
church and state, and government regulation. She holds a B.A. from
Brooklyn College, an M.A. from Hunter College, a J.D. from Brooklyn
Law School, and a Ph.D. and LL.M. from Columbia University where
she was the Bretzfelder Fellow in Constitutional Law during the
1983-84 academic year. She is a fellow of the Open Society
Institute and is currently writing a book, to be published by
Harvard University Press, on language, identity, and schooling.