Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis
School of Education

Julie Mead

Professor, Associate Dean for Education

jmead@education.wisc.edu


377E Education Building

1000 Bascom Mall

Madison, WI 53706-1326

Mead, Julie

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Julie Fisher Mead is a professor in the Department of Educational Leadership & Policy Analysis. Dr. Mead researches and writes about topics related to the legal aspects of education. Dr. Mead’s research centers on legal issues related to special education and legal issues raised by various forms of school choice.

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  • Eckes, S. E., & Mead, J. F. (2020). Discriminatory practices in voucher programs. Phi Delta Kappan, 101(6), 65-67.
  • Mead, J. F. (2019). School vouchers and student rights: Trading constitutional protections for contractual obligations. In K. Bowman (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of US Education Law Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press https://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190697402.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780190697402-e-35.
  • Mead, J. F., & Green, P. C. (2019). Advancing International Equity in Charter Schools. Washington, DC: The Century Foundation https://tcf.org/content/report/advancing-intentional-equity-charter-schools/.
  • Mead, J. F., & Paige, M. A. (2019). Building a wall around the schoolhouse? Education and immigration in the Trump age. Journal of Law and Education, 48(4), 449-477.
  • Mead, J. F., & Green, P. C. (2019). Special Education and School Choice: A Special Leadership Challenge. In J. Crockett, B. Billingsley, & M.L. Boscardin (Eds.), Handbook of Leadership and Administration for Special Education New York, NY: Taylor and Francis.
  • Eckes, S., & Mead, J. F. (2019). Taxpayer dollars and discrimination in employment: Educators in private religious schools beware. Teachers College Record https://www.tcrecord.org/.
  • Mead, J. F., & Eckes, S. E. (2018). How School Privatization Opens the Door for Discrimination. Boulder, CO: National Education Policy Center http://nepc.colorado.edu/publication/privatization..
  • Mead, J. F., Paige, M., & Eckes, S. (2018). Legal Matters: 10 Supreme Court cases every principal should know about.. Principal Leadership, 18(9), 56-58.
  • Kelley, C., & Mead, J. F. (2017). Revolution and counter-revolution: Network mobilization to preserve public education in Wisconsin. Peabody Journal of Education, 92(1), 103-114.
  • Lewis, M. M., Mead, J. F., & Hall, D. (2017). The American Education Exchange Council as a 'friend of the Court' in education cases.. University of Pennsylvania of Law and Social Change, 20(4), 305-339.

Select Presentations

  • Mead, J. F. The Constitution, School Vouchers, and Student Rights. Oral Presentation presented at the Vanderbilt University Colloquium, Nashville, TN.
  • Mead, J. F. Trading collective for individual accountability in privatized systems of education. Oral Presentation presented at the Annual Meeting of the Education Law Association, Cleveland, OH.
  • Mead, J. F. Trading collective for individual accountability in privatized systems of education. Oral Presentation presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New York, NY.
  • Paige, M. A., & Mead, J. F. Building a wall around the schoolhouse? Immigration in the Trump age. Oral Presentation presented at the Annual Meeting of the Education Law Association, San Diego, CA.
  • Borkowski, J. W., Mead, J. F., & Bowman, K. School choice under Trump and DeVos: The history of choice and the possibility of a federal voucher plan. Oral Presentation presented at the Annual Meeting of the Education Law Association, San Diego, CA.
  • Taheri, R., & Mead, J. F. School choice, student diversity, and segregation: Examining the evidence. Oral Presentation presented at the 2017 Conference of the National Coalition on School Diversity, New York, NY.
  • Johnson, M., Marshall, C., Murphy, J., Strothers, A., Kelley, C. J., & Mead, J. F. Counter-networks of resistance. Oral Presentation presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Antonio, TX.
  • Mead, J. F. The Right to Shop for an Education: Examining Voucher Programs in Relation to State Constitutional Guarantees. presented at the Annual Meeting of the Education Law Association, Westminster, CO.
  • Mead, J. F. “Private in Name Only": Revisiting the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program. presented at the Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC.
  • Mead, J. F., & Eckes, S. Teaching School Law: Tips and Hints. presented at the ELA Webinar.