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Students whose learning problems are connected to poverty may be wrongly excluded from access to special education programs under federal law, University of Virginia law professor Jim Ryan argues in a new article. Recent neuroscience research raises important new questions about the underlying

Despite decades of attempted education reforms, urban and suburban school systems remain largely segregated and separated by a considerable achievement gap, Professor James Ryan writes in a new book from Oxford University Press. Update, July 2011: "Five Miles Away, A World Apart" earned honorable

Law School Academic Associate Dean James Ryan will receive the 2008 Steven S. Goldberg Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Education Law next month at the Education Law Association's annual conference. Professor James Ryan The ELA selected Ryan as the recipient of the annual award for his Texas

Law professor Mildred Robinson remembers clearly the day the Supreme Court handed down the Brown vs. Board of Education decision ruling that "separate but equal" schools violated the 14th Amendment.