Arum's Education and Law Projects Receive Awards

Richard Arum, a professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, has been awarded a $232,101 grant from the National Science Foundation for "School Rights: Law and the Dynamics of Everyday School Life," a research project focusing on three arenas of legal regulation that are central to schools: discipline, civil rights, and free speech. The grant will go toward extending fieldwork being conducted in 24 high schools in three states. An extension of the research project mentioned above, Arum's research study, "A National Probability Survey of Teachers and Administrators: Tracking Variation in Educators' Perceptions and Experience of Law," has also received funding in the amount of $92,400 from the Kauffman Foundation.