Foreword: Board of Education v. Rowley After Thirty Years

The first three contributions look at recent developments in education law and question whether and how these changes do- or should- affect Rowley's application in the future. _ Andrea Kaufman, a lawyer who is a professor at the DePaul University School of Education, and Evan Blewett, a DePaul law student, observe a change in emphasis in Congress's approach to education since the passage of the original federal special education law, which they identify as a transition from ensuring basic access to improving academic performance. [...] it contends that various competing approaches may be better from an interpretive and policy perspective than the some-benefit standard; among those would be the proportional-maximization-of-opportunity standard adopted by the lower courts in Rowley.