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1995 BYU Educ. & L.J. 106 (1995)
America Goes to School: Law, Reform, and Crisis in Public Education

handle is hein.journals/byuelj1995 and id is 110 raw text is: Book Review America Goes to School: Law, Reform, and Crisis in Public Education, by Robert M. Hardaway. Westport, Connecticut: Praeger, 1995. E. Vance Randall* In 1983, the National Commission on Excellence in Educa- tion released its report on the perilous condition of American education. The Commission's report, A Nation at Risk: The Imperative for Educational Reform, described how a rising tide of mediocrity in American education had placed the American people, both collectively and individually, at risk to competitors throughout the world. The educational maelstrom which followed is now in its third wave of reform efforts intended to reverse the decline in American education. Literally hundreds of local, state, regional, and national task forces, as well as numerous scholars and researchers, have contributed to the continuing debate over possible causes and cures for an ailing American education. America Goes to School: Law, Reform, and Crisis in Public Education' is another important contribution to this ongoing discussion. The public schools' failure, asserts Hardaway, can be traced to two key developments. First, public school officials deserted traditional American education for a Prussian educational model.2 Second, constitutional principles of due process and equal protection have been grossly misapplied in areas of racial segregation, vandalism and school violence. There is a crisis of due process.3 Due Process is a right guaranteed by the Four- teenth Amendment. Despite these debilitating forces, the author maintains that the public schools can be reclaimed by re- * Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership, Brigham Young University. B.S. Brigham Young University, 1975; M.Ed. Brigham Young University, 1978; Ph.D. Cornell University, 1989. 1. ROBERT M. HARDAWAY, AMERICA GOES TO SCHOOL: LAW, REFORM, AND CRISIS IN PUBLIC EDUCATION (1995). 2. Id. at 164. 3. Id. at 165.

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